Tech Lab Notes and UNIX Skills
by D.W. Hyatt
Learning how to use the UNIX operating system will be very valuable in
college. Here are simple skills, as well as some more advanced
capabilities of this operating system.
Sysadmin Skills - Advanced LINUX Tools
Simple UNIX Skills
Working with PHP
PHP is a new addition to HTML that allows a web designer to create
interactive and dynamic web pages easily. It interfaces nicely with
a database application, MySQL, that is also available on our web
server. To use MySQL, though will need to get a special database
account.
Database Capabilities with MySQL
Databases are very useful for saving and retreiving information. Check out
these resources.
Perl Resources
Perl is a powerful language that is often used in writing scripts that help
handle functions on UNIX systems, and it has also been used for writing
interactive programs on the web. Unlike PHP, Perl programs that run
on the web must be placed in a special directory called cgi-bin
that is under the web-docs directory. Perl is probably still the
most commonly used language for writing CGI-scripts, but because languages
like PHP are easier to use, it may not be the language of choice in years
to come.