mysql database

HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_auth_mysql on Apache2 on a Debian Squeeze server."

Chad Lung has posted an introduction to PDO, PHP Data Objects, in a simple PHP script:

On his blog today Jonathan Wage has posted a tip on getting MongoDB connections and queries to work through the Doctrine ORM layer:

New on NETTUTS.com today there's a tutorial about building a simple RSS feed for your CodeIgniter application based on the contents of a MySQL database and a standard MVC setup of files to handle the request.

New on the Content with Style blog today there's this tutorial looking at full-text searching combining Xapian and PHP to replace the slower full-text methods in something like a MySQL database.

In what could be an escalating war in the emerging arena of cloud-based computing services, Amazon today said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using the MySQL database The company today also said that it plans to slash the costs of its EC2 service by as much as 15 percent.

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users.

This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine."

The VAR Guy: "During the Oracle OpenWorld conference (Oct. 11-15, San Francisco), speculation mounted that Oracle was preparing an Unbreakable Linux offering that features the MySQL database — and targets Microsoft's Windows Server-SQL Server combo."

On NETTUTS.com today they've posted part seven of their "CodeIgniter from Scratch" series of screencasts looking at building a CodeIgniter application from the ground up.

This time the focus is on pagination.

Howtoforge: "Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which ACIDBASE will use to display in a graphical interface in web browser."