Your Localhost is very nearly complete, we’ve installed Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I breifly talked about the ability to modify and change MySQL databases. Well phpMyAdmin can do just that, this tool allows you to do this, it helps you manage your MySQL database in a nicely presented admin panel which you can easily change tables, prefixes and much more. This tool is a must if you plan on creating databases on your localhost

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In part two, we installed almightly PHP language onto our localhost, with that you can now run php scripts and code offline on your localhost, but for example what if you want to test a script that needs a database your basically stuck aren’t you? Well to handle databases there’s something called MySQL, this is simple a relation database management system and is present on most web-servers avaliable today. MySQL allows you to create and modify (To a certain extent) databases on a server, and lucky you, it can be installed on a localhost! We will be installing the MySQL service and getting it to run with your localhost.

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Thats a quote that my life resolves around alot. Last night I was working on my IT Coursework on Task 3 of the coursework booklet. The task is to create a quotation system in Microsoft Excel for a carpet company called DM carpets, after you have created the quotation system with all of the relative formulae and formulas you then have to screenshot each part of the quotation system and show evidence of how It works. I was doing this last night and managed to get 5 pages of explianation.

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About a few months ago I invested in a laptop, and now a days many people has some form of laptop, it could be a work laptop which is given to you in your job or your own personal laptop which you at home and around the house. I purchased a second hand laptop a few months ago, but not for either reasons I listed above, you see I had managed to get a legal copy of Windows Vista Ultimate from a website that is a Microsoft product reseller and sells software to students but at really low prices

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In part one we setup a Apache server and configured the localhost ready for you to use, we also set up the directory where you are going to save your local files. But so far in part one we only essentially setup the localhost, so all of the goodness of being able to view server side documents/scripts etc won’t work yet as you will need to install them, one of the most popular if not the popular server side code is PHP. It is used mostly to create dynamic webpages. Lets install PHP!

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