I’ve been managing a few small MySQL databases lately that often need record updates but certainly don’t warrant building a separate management interface. The easiest way to accomplish this (assuming you don’t have complicated joins and relationships) is to install phpMyAdmin, a robust, web-based admin utility for MySQL that is built in php. In my case, I’m running these mostly on Amazon Linux instances, so after a little poking around, it turns out the installation is just 3 simple steps.
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The Curious Case of PHP Template Engines
Update: Since this post was written, serverless technology has become my go to choice for most projects. I still like and use PHP, but I would most likely not build another major project with it. 😬
I’ve been writing PHP code since 1998, so it feels very familiar to me. I built my last major web project in PHP, and if I had to do it again, I’d make the same choice. So whenever a task comes up that could be automated with some quick code, I typically default to PHP. Recently I found myself battling with some reporting templates I inherited that were coded as a mix of Python, SQL, HTML, and Javascript. The finalized reports need to be converted to PDFs, which means the PDF converter needs to be able to process Javascript. This has proven to be a problem since the prior developer was unable to find a good solution. So now I’m left with a highly inefficient, manual process.