While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

Recently, I was looking for a calendar system that would allow me to keep track of events, appointments and project dates. Quite a few of the applications that I looked at were written in PHP and used ...

In PHP programming language there is an open source tool called PhpMyAdmin that handles the administration of MySQL. Access can be denied when access to MySQL is attempted through the root user.

A fresh installation of the XAMPP Control Panel on a Windows device doesn’t hold the root password for MySQL PHPMyAdmin. In such a case, it could be easily accessible to everyone and that results in ...