Bill installed MySQL on home.ooi.net recently. Today I updated our PHP installation to work with MySQL. This will help David Johnson do some very interesting database-backed Web development for a client. Though I left all the source code distributions in place from the previous Apache build, it was nevertheless a bit hairy getting the modules reconfigured and recompiled. I will soon be rebuilding Apache yet again — this time with the DSO mechanism — to allow for easy changes to modules in the future. I still need to get the Tcl and counter modules in the server as well.

The email link at the bottom of my home page is now a link to a little PHP email doodad. PHP is nifty. Look for more PHP stuff to show up here and elsewhere on home.ooi.net in the near future.