Understanding how URLs are linked to Code in the HTML pages

Whenever we launch a website in the browser, it then gets modified as we navigate the other elements on that web site page.  We notice that, the modified URL will mostly have the website actual website but with more strings attached to it starting with a ?. Example: We open a main web site  page say http://www.yahoo.com/ Then we navigate to Yahoo mail login page: https://login.yahoo.com/?.src=ym&.intl=us&.lang=en-US&.done=http://mail.yahoo.com    In the above we see the web site of yahoo.com is having URL with   https://login.yahoo.com/   +  ?  + .src=ym&.intl=us&.lang=en-US&.done=http://mail.yahoo.com   This process of URL modification is called the URL encoding.  This is […]

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Starting up Web Development in Php scripting language on Windows

The foremost to I learned is that many of the Php development tools/resources/projects refer setting php in WAMPServer (Windows AMP) that comes bundled with all of a required components for a Web site development which include: Web Server: Apache Database: MySQL Scripting Language: PHP Refer to: Installing WampServer 2 on Windows   In case if you are looking to setup your PHP web pages within IIS web server, then you need to explicitly download, install and configure the respective equivalent components in Windows. Refer to:  Configuring PHP to run in Windows IIS Web Server

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Configuring PHP to run in Windows IIS Web Server

    Enable the IIS Web Server Role in Server Manager on server systems, in Add or Remove Programs > Windows Features > install IIS for Windows Desktop systems. Then you need to download the latest PHP for your Windows IIS from http://windows.php.net/download/ .  If you are using PHP with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP. VC11 x64 Non Thread Safe (2013-Nov-13 20:57:46) Zip You need to download and install PHP Manager 1.2 for IIS 7: PHP Manager 1.2 for IIS 7 – x64 Then integrate the PHP Manager with the downloaded version of PHP […]

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