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Just thought I'd post this a the result of a few hours tracking absymal
page load speeds.
I had a page that someties loaded fast, but not after a databse update,
when it slowed to a crawl..using TOP on my Liux server showed that

Hello experts.
I am having a small problem with my hotel booking script ..
The hotels have a number of different seasons in each year each with a
different price per night, and i need to calculate how many days are

Suppose I have a php script looking something like this:
the_form.php:
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<?php

I am learning PHP5. I have written a website contaning a few pages available
from main menu and a page available from URL only (say, "configuration"). I
don't know how to protect configuration page. Is using field for password a
good idea? Are there other popular methods instead of ...

Now I am not asking you to fix this, but I could use some help in HOW to
fix it. Or how to isolate the problem
A page, that has been working fine,  suddenly isn't.
Its a very complex page.

Hello ppl,
i want to get first 10 result from the google search, the following
code always returns me the null object or file open handler can any
body tell me what wrong i m doing here

I check all my POST variables when processing a form with:
if(isset($_POST['foobar'])) {
    Continue to process
} else {

I have software catalog site.
If I want to download some software I press button with link on page and
goto
to php script which increment download value in database and then I want

I need to get some data from a MySQL database into an Excel
Spreadsheet, potentially using PHP.
What's available in PHP to help me with writing the MS-Excel file?  
Thanks,

I'm new to PHP and recently setup my local machine with PHP and MySQL
for doing development.  I was sort of stuck when I needed to post my
work for the user to test and review.  After looking around a bit I
found a site that hosts PHP and MySQL apps.  I was surprised that it

Below is the directory tree structure in my web server (relevant
parts):