Author Archives: arnab.dutta

The Power of ‘i’

Yes, ‘i’ makes a difference…and for those working in MySQL there could be no better way getting it proved. Shift to MySQLi… the latest extension for PHP5 that will support all the features in MySQL version 4.1 and more. Why would anyone like to switch to ext/mysqli … let’s have a deeper insight into it. 4 reasons to shift to MySQLi: Greater speed: the modified features in MySQLi have made operations faster. Can you believe now you can perform a task in MySQLi 40 times faster as compared to ext/mysql!? Better security: In the older versions of the …

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Content Publishing…Open Source again!

Next time try out the free content publishing system rather than using HTML editors like Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Using open source content publishing system can surely help to reduce your software license revenue expenses provided you diligently do your homework on the implementation part of this solution. I was looking for some content publishing applications, came across some of the open source systems written in PHP/MySQL. Here is a gist of what I found… WordPress: WordPress, among all open source products, is the best as it is where I’m writing this blog . Well, on a serious note, …

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