How to install Coppermine Gallery 1.4.10

Coppermine Gallery is a popular open-source photogallery script that’s used on sites all over the web. And it’s a very easy install.
Download the files
Head on over to the Coppermine home page to get the download file. Across the top you’ll see a link for Download. Click there to be taken to the SourceForge [...]

mysqldump - Backing up your database

One of the support programs that comes with MySQL is an often overlooked program called mysqldump. With mysqldump you can easily dump a MySQL database to either CSV, XML, or a complete set of SQL instructions needed to recreate the database.

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How To Automatically Backup MySQL Databases to Your Computer

How often do your online databases get updated? How often do you back up? Are you dependent on your host for backups? Try this quick PHP script to backup your MySQL databases from your server.
The general rule of thumb for backups is backup often enough to where you wont mind losing the work [...]

Bridging Etomite and SMF

A few months ago I started a photography forum with another moderator from a previous forum I was on. Part of our goal was to have a library of articles in a static site and link those articles back to a Simple Machines forum for discussion.
For the CMS I decided on Etomite since I’ve [...]

Get list of MySQL databases using PHP

MySQL has a built-in command to get a list of databases that can be accessed by the currently logged in user, and it is very easy to take this list and use it inside a PHP script.
First, let’s look at the command from inside the MySQL monitor ptogram. If you have any experience inside [...]