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How to automate your site and get any list, database or directory online, quickly, easily and inexpensively.

Getting a database online and automating your website today can be a frustrating experience. Even with all the new technology and software available, most often than not, you still need someone to help you get going.

And that's where most problems begin.

You know how important it is to automate your online business .. in fact in today's market, it's absolutely essential. In order to stay ahead of the competion (or sometimes just to keep up!), you have to keep overhead low and sales high. Do more in less time, provide more services, offer more selections and provide better and more personalized service.

So, you decide to take the next logical step, and start planning to move the most important facets of your business .. your clients, your leads, your staff, your inventory, your articles, your knowledgebase ... all the information that's valuable to keep your business running.

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Building a useable website can seem daunting. Here is a quick guideline to help you on your way.

1.It’s all about your content

To get your website listed appropriately the content of your website needs to be nested between the tags. This way it gets read by the search engines. Your content also needs to be unique and get your point across.What is it about your product or service that is better and different from your competitions. This is called your usp or unique selling proposition and should be conveyed clearly and immediately upon hitting the page.

2.Make effective use of your title and description tags

These are your two most important tags when it comes to referencing your page content. Meta keywords rarely have any impact what so ever on your pages listings.

3.Make sure content is well formatted

It is very important to break up your content with italics, bold text, bulleted lists, etc. Well formatted content makes your pages more accessible to visitors but the search engines also. Visitors scan across your page rather than read it so it makes sense to format your page so it can be browsed yet still convey your message.

4.Proper code

Having proper progamming in place is quite simply a must. Web standards have changed substantially over the years and it is important to make sure your pages validate both html and css. Think of it this way. How effective could you get your point across if you were talking swahili. Your code is no different. Why make it difficult for the search bots to index your content.

5.Do not use Front Page, Dreamweaver, or any other WYSIWYG editor.

While accurate, MS Front Page, for example, makes it easy for just about anyone to throw up a web page it doesn’t take W3C compliancy into account Hence the code it outputs is an absolute train wreck. This is terminal for your website as you need a strong code base (foundation) or your site will never stand up to the competitions.

6.Don’t design in Flash

Seemingly technical in nature or “neat” perhaps flash animation only serves to distract visitors from what they came to your site for in the first place, your product or service. Your services are what visitors are interested in not a blinking, noisy, website. Flash also creates major problems with getting it properly indexed. There is no way for the search engines to extract content from your website as it is all contained with in the swf. If you absolutely must have a flash page it is imparitive to offer an html version as well.

7.Easy on the eyes

Graphical elements play a huge role in a website design as well. You need to make sure you don’t have any extreme contrasts between colors and that you don’t use really bright colors as they are quite hard on the eyes. Your logo or brand should be clearly displayed on the home page and in more than one place.

8.Instill a sense of well being with ease of use

Make sure you have all legal documents in place such as privacy and return policies. It is also important to have all of your contact information pricing etc. displayed in a manner that conveys legitimacy. It should be very easy to contact you for any questions your visitors may have.

9.Include an opt-in newsletter

A great way to generate return customers is to offer an opt-in newsletter. This allows for direct marketing to people who you know are already interested in your product or service. What better way is there to keep customers abreast of new products or changes in the services you offer.

10.Use a trademark or tag line

In our case we trademarked the manipulated at symbol with the phrase bringing e-solutions to you, thereby effectively increasing the strength of our brand. We are now able to effectively convey who we are but give a good creative idea as to what we do.

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Nigel is the Owner and E-Commerce Project Manager of Ultimatech Computer Consultancy located in Aspen Colorado. You may re-print this article by leaving my name in tact. www.ultimatechcc.com

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Website Design Marketing Tips By Milana

"Fix Your Web Site or Say "Good-Bye" To Sales!"

Your website tells a lot about you and your product so if your website is poorly design you are sure to loose your entire investment as you will be loosing sales by the minute. In this article I have outlined some of the common problems common to website.

In the age we are today, things change fast in the Internet and so if you are to keep up with your customers and to make maximise profits as a webmaster, you must be able to design and re-design your website to reflect the message you pass to your customers.

Sometimes waiting for your website designers take ages to effect this changes which you could have been able to do quietly from your home or office without having to pay lots of money to web designers and wait on the queue to get to your turn before the change can be effect. These delays result in loss of sales most of the time.

There is no way I will ever buy anything from a web site that has missing images or broken links. I mean, if this webmaster doesn't care about his web site, he probably could care less about his customers.

Getting your web site to look good can sometimes be a hair-pulling experience. Even for me, and I have been making web sites for over 5 years. I can only imagine how frustrated many newbies can get.

Let me share with you some of the common problems in designing a well-functioning web site. If you haven't made these mistakes yet - trust me: you will! Keep this troubleshooting guide handy for when you need it (and save some of your hair, too!)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. MISSING IMAGES ON THE PAGE 2. IMAGE LOADS VERY SLOWLY 3. IMAGE LOOKS DISTORTED

4. BROKEN LINKS

5. TEXT IS MISSING ON THE PAGE 6. VISITORS CAN'T SEE YOUR FANCY FONTS 7. TOO MUCH HORIZONTAL SCROLLING REQUIRED 8. THE TABLE IS WIDER THAN SPECIFIED 9. WEB PAGE DISPLAYS OLD LINKS AND IMAGES 10. BACKGROUND DOESN'T SHOW 11. CAN'T ACCESS YOUR HOME PAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PROBLEM 1: MISSING IMAGES ON THE PAGE

SOLUTION: There are three things that might cause this problem. You have either forgotten to upload the image to your web server, didn't link to it correctly, or the graphic is in invalid format.

1) Remember, you need to upload all the graphics that you are using on your web page, just like any other file. So if you have a "services.html" page that contains "staff.jpg" graphic, you need to upload both "services.html" and "staff.jpg" to your web server.

2) You also need to reference that image correctly. For this, you need to understand a little bit about files, folders, and directories. Basically, a file is a document. A folder (or a directory) is a collection of files.

You might have a directory on your web site called "images". Inside it you might have the "staff.jpg", "logo.jpg", and other files.

Now, here is the trick: if your HTML file is located in the same folder with the graphic it contains, then here is how you refer to that image:

So far, simple, right?

But let's say that your HTML file is located in the main directory, while the graphic file is located in the sub-directory. For example, "services.html" is located in the root directory of your web site so that if you type www.yoursite.com/services.html in your browser location bar, you will see it.

And let's say that you placed a graphic used on that page into a sub-directory called "images", so that when you type www.yoursite.com/images/graphic.jpg into your browser location bar, you will see that image. So how do you refer to that graphic from your "services.html" page? Here is how:

All I did was put the sub-directory (or folder) name followed by a forward slash before the graphic name.

Finally, what if you put an HTML page into a sub- directory, but leave the image in the main (root) directory? For example, your "services.html" is located in a sub-directory called "pages". And the graphic used on it, "staff.jpg", is placed in the main directory, so that when you type this address into your browser location bar, you will see it: www.yoursite.com/staff.jpg How do you refer to this graphic on your "services.html" page? You use the "previous directory" notation like this:

The browser will then know, that in order to find that graphic it needs to look in one directory below. If you are having trouble understanding the above notation, use absolute image references. For example:

Make sure you know where you placed your graphic (which folder) and refer to it as if you were accessing it from your web browser. That's it!

3) And finally, if you are not using graphics with the "JPG" or "GIF" extension, they will not appear on your web page. Use PaintShop Pro or any other graphic editor download.com) to convert your graphic from any format to "JPG" or "GIF". Broken images may also happen even if they don't have the right extension. That's because they have been created in a not-for-web format. When a graphic artist designs your logo, remind her to save it as "RGB" (which stands for "red-green-blue") or "Indexed Color" and not any other color mode (such as "CMYK").

For more information, see "Choosing the right format for your images" at http://tech.irt.org/articles/js206/index.htm

PROBLEM 2: IMAGE LOADS VERY SLOWLY

SOLUTION: You must do your best to reduce the graphic to its minimum good-looking format. Use GIFBot to do this: http://www.netmechanic.com/GIFBot/optimize-graphic.htm Some new webmasters use a large graphic and specify a smaller size in the HTML code. That is absolutely unnecessary and will slow down your web page three times or more! For example, if you have a graphic that is 200x200 in size (pixels), and insert it into your web page like this:

...you are actually doing yourself disservice. Why not reduce the graphic in your image editor first, then place it on your web site? Doing this will speed up your site and will not distort your graphic.

PROBLEM 3: IMAGE LOOKS DISTORTED SOLUTION: You probably specified incorrect size of this graphic on your web page. To find out the correct size of a graphic, right-click on it and choose "Properties" from the menu. You should see the image size (something like 110 x 200) then put the same numbers in the IMG tag:

PROBLEM 4: BROKEN LINK

SOLUTION: You must fix your link so it takes your visitors to a page that exists. Links can be relative or absolute. Here is an example of a relative link (remember, I am omitting the tag brackets so you could see the actual code):

This link refers to a page that is located on YOUR web site, and not someone else's. Now, here is an example of an absolute link:

Notice that this link will take you to the exact same page that the first one will. This is just a different way to build your links.

You can also link to someone else's web site using absolute links:

Can you use relative links to refer to an outside web site? No. Only absolute links can do that. And don't forget to use the "http://" in each absolute link tag.

PROBLEM 5: TEXT IS MISSING ON THE PAGE SOLUTION: This can happen for different reasons, but all of them have to do with closing tags:

1) When a closing table tag is missing, the entire table content might be missing, too. So don't forget to close all your TABLE, TR and TD tags.

2) You forgot to close a comment and the browser "thinks" that the rest of the text has also been commented out. Make sure you close every comment that you open.

3) You forgot to close a quotation mark in a tag. For example, if you use quotes in a IMG SRC or A HREF tags, you must close them:

The above code will cause the page to display incorrectly. Fix it by adding a closing quotation after the graphic name.

4) If you using in forms, make sure you close it with a tag.

PROBLEM 6: VISITORS CAN'T SEE YOUR FANCY FONTS SOLUTION: Do not use your fancy fonts. There are only a handful of fonts that every computer user has installed. They are: Verdana, Arial, Courier, & Times New Roman. If you try to use some other font such as Impact or FreeStyle Script, and your visitors don't have them installed, they will see your text in whatever font their browser is set to.

If you REALLY want your visitors to see your handsome fonts, then turn some of your text into graphics. Your graphics will be displayed the same on every computer, and your visitors will be able to see the fonts you meant for them to see.

PROBLEM 7: TOO MUCH HORIZONTAL SCROLLING REQUIRED SOLUTION: Put your text into a table and make it no more than 85% in width and centered. This way, regardless of how large or small their monitors are, your visitors will always see your text centered with no horizontal scrolling necessary.

PROBLEM 8: THE TABLE IS WIDER THAN SPECIFIED SOLUTION: Sometimes even you specify table width as 500 pixels, it might still stretch to all 700. There are two reasons for that.

1) You have a graphic in that table that is wider than the table itself. Reduce its size and the table will shrink as well.

2) You are using a long URL somewhere in the table text. Shorten it or remove it and you will see the table shrink to its specified size.

PROBLEM 9: WEB PAGE DISPLAYS OLD LINKS AND IMAGES SOLUTION: Refresh (or reload) the page by clicking the button on the toolbar of your browser. Sometimes the graphics are still not being refreshed in which case you need to do this:

right-click on the graphic choose "view image" or "open image" click "Refresh" when the graphic is displayed by itself

Now come back to your web page and press "refresh" button one more time. You should now see the updated images. Also, if you are using an FTP program to upload your files, don't forget to click "Refresh" in the FTP window before uploading new files. Otherwise, you will simply upload the old versions.

PROBLEM 10: BACKGROUND DOESN'T SHOW SOLUTION: Make sure to upload your background image along with the other files. Also, make sure you upload it into the right directory (see "missing image on the page" above for more information)

PROBLEM 11: CAN'T ACCESS YOUR HOME PAGE SOLUTION: if you get an "access denied" error or a list of files when you are trying to access your web site, make sure you named your home page correctly.

Every hosting company has it set up so that the very first page of your site must be named "index.html". Sometimes, though, they will require your first file to be called "welcome.html", "default.html", "home.html", or "default.htm".

There is only one way to find out:ask them! Or visit their web site to see if they specify the default file name in their tech support section.

Notice that "default.html" and "default.htm" are two different files. You can name your files either way, but only one of them will be accepted as a default one.

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http://www.bpk.ebizmalls.com 1. Search Engine - Is a database of web sites that is ranked according to the computerized criteria that the programmers decide upon called an algorithm. Various search engines determine ranking on their own different factors of importance or relevancy. For the last few years the Google search engine was the most popular search engine supplying the search results for Yahoo and to a lesser extent MSN and AOL. This all changed recently after Yahoo purchased different search engine companies and developed its own search engine. Soon MSN will enter this market with its own search engine algorithm.

Searchers input keyword queries into search boxes and are given results from the databases of the search engines in accordance with the ranking algorithm from whatever search engine they are using.

In other words, search engines index sites it feels will be of value to its customers, which are Internet surfers searching for information.

The most important concept to grasp with a search engine, is that it uses an automated computerized system to find and rank the sites within its database of web sites.

2. Internet Directory - An Internet directory is a large listing of categorized web sites - however the concept that should be understood with the Internet directories, is that they actually have editors that decide what goes into the directory. Remember an Internet directory is decided and managed by human editors, while in contrast, a search engine is ranked by a computerized algorithm or system. Directories are important to get links from because, they will raise your rankings in the Google algorithm (which is based on PageRank™ or links from other sites to a great extent).

3. SEO - Search Engine Optimization From the Tao of Search Engine Promotion represents the Ying or Female Principle in that it is more fluid and receptive to the algorithms of the search engines, which of course you - do not control. SEO promotion is using known conventions and in some cases deconstructing the algorithms of the developers of the search engines and working with them. In other words it is like Judo where you use the momentum and power of the search engines to build your business. You will have to be constantly vigilant, in order to try to stay abreast of the latest developments in SEO promotion.

4. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising with the search engines is bidding for particular keyword phrases or search terms used most frequently by Internet users related to information on certain niches and sectors. Overture was the first great pay-per-click advertising sales channel for the search engines. It presently represents Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Alta Vista, Hot Bot, and related partners allowing advertisers to bid on particular keywords. Google presently runs its own PPC Search Engine advertising branch called Google's Adwords Select. Since PPC advertising is so expensive use it in moderation by setting daily and monthly budgets (otherwise for high volume searched keywords you could go broke).

After setting budgets, which you do in the Overture and Google advertising interfaces, use PPC to test your conversion rates for subscribers, sales, etc., and constantly monitor it and fine-tune it. You want to increase your conversation rates. This is critical because as we alluded to the expense of PPC in earlier in this article the typical major ad agency or corporate brand only spends $5 - $15 dollars to reach a thousand people (CPM). Although they may go higher for a responsive direct mail lists like $100 or $150 to reach a thousand people. In PPC advertising small business are usually paying at least 35 cents on the dollar (for any word with any real competition) to reach a thousand people or $350 dollars. I have seen and experienced people paying $2.50 a click or $2250 dollars to reach a thousand people.

The true expense of PPC is never discussed by experts in that industry. Any small business using PPC should have an outstanding product ready for prime time, to see any return in investment. Alternately, they should only use it for limited testing or to get a product quickly to market on-line. Given the expense of PPC some small business people might be better off buying classified direct response advertising in a niche publication or obtaining ad space in ezines.

Another point to discuss in PPC is how the major companies hurt their advertisers (stab them in the back) by using pop-up blockers, which hurts the advertisers ability to collect email addresses on the front end, and with spam filters block even legitimate marketers ability to reach opt-in subscribers on the back end. Google is more of a front end pop-up blocker, AOL is more of an email blocker, while Yahoo is both. There are better ways to stop email and web site spam. What is important is that small business, if it is not careful with PPC could be paying AOL, Google, and Yahoo/Overture to put them out of business.

5. Pay Per Inclusion is paying to be included in the database of a search engine or Internet directory. Presently it is free to be included in the Google search engine. You just need a link to your site from a few other sites already in the Google database and your site will be spidered in many cases. Recently it has been announced Yahoo will charge a fee to update your new content into their search engine database. From what I understand if you are already listed in Yahoo its all well and good, but any new content that you put on your site will not be indexed.

6. Search Terms (AKA Keywords or Keyword Phrases) - Search terms and more specifically keyword phrases are words searchers put in a search box to find information on a particular product, service, or item. Keywords and Keyword phrases have different tiers. For instance the top tier keyword 'business' probably receives 500,000 searches a month. But it is so general that it would not be a good keyword for which to optimize your site. However, the second tier Keyword phrase 'small business' would have less searches, but it is more of a targeted search. The third tier keyword phrases are even more targeted and would be ideal for persons to optimize their sites for although there are less monthly searches for them.

7. Search Engine Algorithm - Algorithms are sets of rules according to which search engines rank web pages. Figuring out the algorithms is a major part of SEO. The thinking is that if you understand how they calculate relevance, you can make specific pages on your site super relevant for specific search terms. For more on algorithms and SEO in general, please check out http://www.searchengineplan.com .

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In business, success requires "information". Either you have it, or you don't. If you have the right information, you can make informed decisions. If you just have information (and cannot determine its accuracy or relevance), then your decisions are no better than the answers you get from flipping a coin.

But where does "information" come from? The source of all information is "data". Raw data is usually not useful to us because it is simply a collection of facts usually pertaining to some sort of transaction. But to harness the power of information, you need the ability to collect, store and analyze your data. That is where a "database" becomes a handy tool.

Advantages of a Database

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A database is an organized collection of data. There are three basic concepts related to a database:

* Collection

* Storage

* Reporting

A "database transaction" is any interaction that occurs with a database, including putting data into and retrieving data from the database. The "collection" and "storage" of data is a type of transaction where the database is a "receiver" of data. It is the job of the database to store this information in a way that is easily retrieved.

"Reporting" is the process by which one can discern knowledge from studying the data. Simple reporting will show basic relationships of the data. Advanced relationships require more intelligent processing and are the reason that "data mining" and "data warehousing" were created. I will cover those concepts in my next article.

The key to the management of the data within the database is the "database manager". You may have heard about a concept called the "Database Management System" (DBMS) or RDBMS for "Relational Database Management System". These are computer software packages that include a "database manager" which keeps track of not only the structure of the database, but the traffic flowing in and out of the database.

The database manager is what makes enterprise database management systems (such as Oracle or Microsoft SQLServer) different from databases that are stored as files like Microsoft Access and spreadsheets. Yes, spreadsheets can be considered a database. In fact, we use the well-understood concept of a spreadsheet to describe the anatomy of a database.

Database Transactions

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Most databases store data in terms of "rows" and "columns" (columns are sometimes called "fields"). A collection of related columns are stored in "tables".

A "spreadsheet" is an example that is easy to understand. The columns and rows form a grid by which you can identify each piece of data. Today's spreadsheets allow for multiple "pages" within a "workbook". Think of those pages as "tables" and the entire workbook as the "database".

So in your first "table" (worksheet in your workbook -- let's call it "Personal Friends"), you place column headers for "Last Name", "First Name" and "Phone Number" (your "columns"). As you fill in each row with your address book information, you are creating "rows" of data.

As you do this for each of the worksheet pages, you are creating more tables. Those "tables" combine to make a database. If you need to change information in the "Personal Friends" table, you open that workbook page, scroll down to the row you need to modify and move to the column that needs modifying. You change the data element and save the changes. In this capacity, you are acting like the database manager.

Database Reporting

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Now that your data is collected and stored, what about making information out of it? That will require the retrieval and analysis of your data. Most databases use a standard way of "querying" a database. It is called "SQL" for "S"tructured "Q"uery "L"anguage. This is a standard way in which you create a statement that performs a data transaction with the database (it can be inserting, updating, deleting or retrieving the data).

SQL can do more than retrieve data. It can also aggregate and process your data using some of the SQL functions. For instance, you can count all of the rows in your database that match a certain criteria, like having a last name of "Smith". You send the request to the database manager and it returns the count to you.

In our spreadsheet example above, you can use the features of the spreadsheet program to sort or filter your rows of data. You can also use its "functions" to draw charts and graphs. While a spreadsheet has everything encapsulated in one program, it has the limitation of only handling small amounts of data. You need larger database management systems to handle volumes of data transactions.

And more advanced reporting, like finding the relationship between the type of customer and products sold, requires more processing. This processing is done in the form of computer software that builds charts and graphs and by using database tools that re-organize the data into different databases from which the final reports can be run. This is typically called "data mining" and involves the concept of "meta data". Those topics are reserved for the next article.

Concept Review

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A "database" is a collection of data from which you will discern knowledge. A "transaction" involves the process of storing or retrieving the data. Database management systems are used to help keep the database "tuned" so that your transactions occur smoothly. Think of the "database management system" as the gatekeeper between you and the data.

Until Next Time,

Paul Carney

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A web database is a database for the internet. You can get access to your data via the internet from anywhere in the world. Or, you can create a database driven website by using such databases. A web database stores large amount of information in an organized format that is easily accessible from scripting languages (like PHP).

In web databases, modifications, like the ones constantly used by e-commerce sites, for example, can be performed without any hassles .That makes the dense editing of the html code obsolete. Repeated types of data, like contact information, can be generated automatically in your website through a web database.

Daffodil DB: A web database

Daffodil DB is a J2EE-certified, SQL-99 and JDBC standards compliant Java RDBMS. It is the first java database which is compatible with PHP. With the release of PHP extension module, Daffodil DB has joined the select list of Java enabled web databases.

Daffodil DB is an ideal for anyone who is looking for a web database. It can be embedded within any application and delivers high performance with minimum system resource usage - thereby striking the right balance between size, features and performance. At less than 3 MB, Daffodil DB is a small/compact database.

Daffodil DB can run on virtually any platform as it supports all platforms for which a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is available. These include Windows, Linux, Solaris and UNIX. With the help of Daffodil DB, developers can build applications for any platform and these can be compiled and delivered on all other major platforms.

PHP

PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server-side scripting language that is particularly suited for web development and can be used to generate dynamic web content.

PHP scripts are embedded within web pages along with HTML, similar to other web scripting languages such as Microsoft's ASP or Sun Microsystems’s JSP. Like ASP and JSP, PHP runs on the web server when a page is requested via HTTP, rather than on the Web browser or other client.

PHP lets you insert instructions into your Web pages that your Web server software (be it Apache, Personal Web Server, or whatever) will execute before sending those pages to a browser that requests them. PHP is easy to use for web development because it has been designed from the onset for the web environment. PHP has many built-in functions that make web programming simpler, so that programmers can focus on the logic of programming without wasting precious development time.

PHP as a language has its own way of doing things, and at the same time, has borrowed features from other languages. But for many people, the main reason for learning a scripting language like PHP is because of the interaction with databases it can offer. Moreover, PHP is cross platform i.e. it allows you to use/develop your solution on multiple OSs. PHP is one of the fastest growing server side scripting languages around and you need to add it to your current arsenal of Perl, ASP, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, Java...

PHP and Daffodil DB: Together…?

Daffodil has come up with a PHP extension module that makes Daffodil DB/One$DB compatible with PHP. It is a database extension module driver that is required to work with Daffodil DB in PHP. This extension module uses the capabilities of a Java database and extends it to your web infrastructure.

By using this extensive module, PHP developers can create sophisticated data-driven web applications, having Daffodil DB as a web database, in a fraction of the time and with reduced cost.

PHP extension for Daffodil DB provides a simple, yet effective means for connecting to Daffodil DB from within PHP. The JVM is created using JNI invocation interface and everything runs in-process.

This PHP Extension module will boost open Source activities around Daffodil DB. Moreover, open Source stack -Linux, Apache, One$DB, and PHP; all being open source products, will give an ultimate combination to web development community.

PHP is platform independent, Daffodil DB is platform independent. PHP is free; so as Daffodil DB (open source version).PHP is open source; Daffodil DB has an open source version. So What about using the powers of two most promising technologies, PHP and Daffodil DB, together…?

The capabilities of Daffodil DB & PHP can make up what must be the best blend for data-driven Web sites on the globe. Users can use PHP and the Daffodil DB database to access/store information on the web and include it into their website. By using PHP as a front-end and Daffodil DB as a back-end web database, users can benefit from huge savings on the licensing costs of commercial alternatives.

Here are some practical examples where PHP and Daffodil DB, used together, can do wonders

Designing a database driven website

Add, edit & delete Web site content without using HTML

Banner Rotation

Forums

Apart from all above mentioned applications, there are some more areas where users can use Daffodil DB-PHP 'dynamic-duo'.

Optimize the loading time of the website

Build an ecommerce shopping cart

Automatically send email on triggered events

Handle file uploads using HTML forms

Build a Web-based file repository or photo gallery

Utilize sessions and cookies to track site visitors

To know more about PHP visit http://www.php.net

For more information about Daffodil DB log on to http://www.daffodildb.com

Please log on to http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pecl/daffodildb for more information on PHP and Daffodil DB.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Parveen Aggarwal, Technical Consultant to DSL India. With more than 6 years of industry experience in Java and allied technologies, he has an in-depth understanding of J2EE, J2ME and database management systems. He can be contacted at parveenaggarwal@hotmail.com

Encompix is pleased to announce a new education class, the Database Tune-up Workshop. This technical workshop focuses on the needs of the person responsible for database administration.

This one-day workshop is conducted on-site and can be tailored to address your specific needs. The instructor for this workshop is Matt Alvord, Encompix's technical expert.

During this workshop you will learn:

• Basic Progress Database Administration

• When and how to backup and restore your database

• How to interpret and analyze database performance statistics

• How to apply Progress and Encompix patches

• How to optimize your database for the Encompix application

For more information on the Database Tune-up Workshop, please contact Matt Alvord at 513-733-0066 x 19

According to ETO Institute (www.etoinstitute.org) spokesperson, Thomas R. Cutler, "Encompix continues to take the leadership role in technology solutions for the Engineer-to-Order manufacturing sector."

Encompix (www.encompix.com) has filled the manufacturing software requirements of Engineer-to-Order companies since 1992. The company name reflects the commitment to developing business application solutions that encompass the complex areas of project-based and job-based manufacturing. Encompix provides ETO manufacturers with a competitive advantage by improving bottom line results.

Encompix www.encompix.com Roger Meloy

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