the big picture of php- capabilities
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:47 pm
Hello,
I have started working on O'reilly's "Web Database Applications with PHP and MYSQL". I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of capabilities the php language has but this book doesn't seem to loose focus of database applications and doesn't provide a clear idea of the big picture (at least so far).
These are the kind of things I hoped I would be able to do with php:
1) a file processing web application: user would upload a file, php would be used to read file and process it (convert line endings or replace all quotations with spaces for instance), and then save the resulting processed file on users local disk.
2) Will I be able to access the web server? I was hoping to create a web interface for vsftpd that would be used to edit the config file and maybe run/start/reload the dameon. Another idea was to create a web based monitor for network connections, or processor status- which means php would need to be able to read those files or maybe php has functions for these kind of things? So the real question is will I be able to interact with the server beyond my apache root folder?
Thanks to anyone who can give me a better idea of what kind of things I would be able to do with php.
My background consists mostly of visual basic with MS access, some .NET, C, good knowledge of linux, and just starting out with html.
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I have started working on O'reilly's "Web Database Applications with PHP and MYSQL". I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of capabilities the php language has but this book doesn't seem to loose focus of database applications and doesn't provide a clear idea of the big picture (at least so far).
These are the kind of things I hoped I would be able to do with php:
1) a file processing web application: user would upload a file, php would be used to read file and process it (convert line endings or replace all quotations with spaces for instance), and then save the resulting processed file on users local disk.
2) Will I be able to access the web server? I was hoping to create a web interface for vsftpd that would be used to edit the config file and maybe run/start/reload the dameon. Another idea was to create a web based monitor for network connections, or processor status- which means php would need to be able to read those files or maybe php has functions for these kind of things? So the real question is will I be able to interact with the server beyond my apache root folder?
Thanks to anyone who can give me a better idea of what kind of things I would be able to do with php.
My background consists mostly of visual basic with MS access, some .NET, C, good knowledge of linux, and just starting out with html.
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