The most popular open-source software ,WordPress is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.

“In the last six months or so, over half the sites being launched with WordPress are really not blogging sites per se, they are complete sites,” said Raanan Bar-Cohen, vice president of media services for Automattic, the company WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg started to offer a hosted version of the software.

Such use has caught at least some of the CMS community by surprise.

“There’s a debate raging within Twitter about whether traditional blogging platform WordPress is also a CMS,” wrote Tony Byrne in a blog post. Byrne is the founder of the CMS analyst firm The Real Story Group, formerly called CMS Watch. “Our take: many organizations are using WordPress as a CMS. That makes it a CMS.”

“A larger enterprise would almost never want [to] use one of those tools for a major web property. But they offer useful alternatives for [small and medium-size business] scenarios, as well as simpler projects,” Byrne elaborated.

WordPress, created in 2003, uses a variety of open-source programs and open standards, such as PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. But now a day all scripts like JQuary, AJAX and many other scripts works with it.

Across the Web, about 21 million sites use WordPress in one form or another, according to Bar-Cohen. Automattic offers a free hosted version of WordPress, as well as paid hosted versions with extra features and support.

Byrne admitted he was skeptical at first of the idea of using WordPress as a CMS. Out of the box, it doesn’t have many of the capabilities, such as workflow or advanced version control, needed even for basic CMS duties.

“It’s one thing to run a blog with a few extra plug-ins and widgets. It’s another to run a corporate Web site,” Byrne said in an interview.

Nonetheless, The Real Story Group spoke with customers and examined Web sites. It found that if an organization had to maintain a relatively simple Web site, one with 50 pages or fewer, then WordPress could prove to be a low-cost, relatively easy-to-maintain option.

“It’s not a [full] development platform, but it can drive a simple Web site fairly capably,” Byrne said.

While it is less sophisticated than many CMS packages, such as the open-source Drupal, it could provide an alternative to other simple platforms, like Joomla and the .Net-driven DotNetNuke.

In this realm, WordPress offers a few distinct advantages, most notably its intuitive interface. “WordPress has an ease of use that is something other vendors could learn from,” Byrne said.

Also, thanks to third-party developers, WordPress has a wide array of plug-ins to extend its functionality, some of which can be used to tackle CMS chores. For instance, a plug-in called Edit Flow offers workflow, or the ability to route a document to multiple parties for editing and approval.

Overall, the WordPress site itself lists more than 8,600 plug-ins. Plugins help your browser perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files.

WordPress has its downsides as well. For one, access control is quite limited, Byrne said. The software offers only sitewide roles. Anybody with administrative rights has the ability to edit any page on the entire site. Someone from human resources, for instance, wouldn’t be restricted to editing only HR pages.

Another shortcoming is the lack of advanced content modeling. While a site can host a series of Web pages, it would be difficult to make finer distinctions among the pages — for a news site to separate news articles from case studies and features, for instance.

Making such distinctions would be possible through some development work, though other CMSes can make this sort of templating much easier.

In general, the deeper into development that a Web site administrator must go, the more the organization should consider another platform, Byrne said.

That said, WordPress is being used as a CMS in some quarters. The Harvard Gazette, The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital Web site and the New York City public television station WNET all run on the software.

For WNET, using WordPress cut the cost of setting up a television Web site, from an estimated average of US$25,000 to $40,000 down to $5,000 to $10,000, according to a white paper posted by WNET and digital design firm Tierra Innovation, which helped with the implementation.

The approach that WordPress designers take, Bar-Cohen said, is to keep the core of the software as simple as possible, allowing users to add on additional features through plug-ins.

This approach differs from most other CMS offerings in its simplicity, Bar-Cohen argued. Many packages will come bundled with lots of features such as polls and forums. The administrator may pull out these features if they are not needed on the site, but that work will need to be repeated each time the software is upgraded.

“We keep the core flexible and don’t try to throw everything into it,” he said.

Last week Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer Chad Pugh to create a couple of brand new WordPress Personas for Firefox. Personas are like skins for your browser, and these designs are a great way to show off your WordPress colors.

The “Vintage Press” Persona is inspired by the style of the great old-time printing presses. Get it here. And the “Inkwell” Persona uses splashes of color to decorate a well-used piece of paper. Add it to your Firefox here.

RoR Developers

Understand Ruby On Rails

To understand ROR better, you need to have some prerequisites installed:
* The Ruby language
* The RubyGems packaging system
* A working installation of SQLite (preferred), MySQL, or PostgreSQL

Courtesy: http://rubyonrails.org

• ThinkPHP.de
  A German and international PHP support company providing full PHP support (single incidents, on-call duty), software development, training, and performance measurements.
• Zend Technologies
  Zend Technologies supports the PHP community and promotes PHP adoption. Founded by the authors of the Zend Engine and members of the PHP Group, Zend offers both free and commercial solutions for PHP.

Professional PHP Associations

• AFUP.org
  (Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP) : The AFUP was created to answer the growing need from companies to have one unique place for PHP solutions.
• PHP Québec
  PHP Québec promotes PHP for professional users in Québec, Canada. Every month, companies hold sessions about their use of PHP, their customer cases and their solutions.
• New York PHP
  International community supporting PHP adoption, projects and development.

PHP News

• Planet PHP
  Latest news aggregated from PHP related weblogs.

PHP Link Catalogs

• dmoz.org
  The PHP category in the Open Directory Project.
• HotScripts.com
  PHP Books, Magazine Articles, Communities, Scripts and Programs, Softwares, Tips
• LinuxGuruz.org
  Many Links and Tutorials, Articles and FAQ about Linux, Apache Web Server, HTML, PHP, MySQL … and lots more
• PHP Everywhere
  Links and news about PHP and related technologies.
• PHP Resource Index
  Hundreds of PHP resources, categorized and searchable
• PHP Sites Webring
  Find PHP Sites within this webring!

PHP FAQ sites

• alt-php-faq.org
  A big faq and some links about PHP and SQL
• de.comp.lang.php FAQ
  Excellent german language FAQ about PHP
• PHP Knowledge Base
  A growing collection of PHP related information in a searchable question and answer format.

Complex PHP Related Sites

• Codewalkers
  A community site dedicated to PHP developers. Includes forums, tutorials, and user submitted code. Home of the PHP Coding Contest.
• Developers Shed
  A good set of articles introducing various PHP concepts
• Dotgeek
  A PHP and PostgreSQL community site with tutorials, articles, programming marathon and news.
• Opendeveloper.org
  Developing Open Web Sites With Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl
• PHPBuilder.com
  A bunch of helpful PHP resources available here
• PHP Developers’ network
  The PHP Developers’ Network was founded to provide the PHP Community with a set of solid sites that work together to promote the PHP language and provide a large resource for the community as a whole.
• PHP Freaks
  PHP Learning Center site.
• PHP Traveller
  PHP weblog, knowledge and link directory. Regularly updated collection of PHP resources.
• WeberDev.com
  PHP related resources (articles, tutorials, forums, advanced search etc.)
• Zend.com DevZone
  A community site for developers of all levels, including a code gallery, applications, tips, forums, tutorials and more.

PHP Scripts and Programs

• freshmeat.net PHP Projects: A huge number of projects, both commercial and open source
• Evil Walrus
  A growing list of PHP scripts
• Nexen’s scripts librairy
  An exhaustive PHP scripts collection, with more 800 useful functions (English and French).
• PHP Foundry at SourceForge
  A great number of open source PHP projects actively developed
• PX – PHP Code Exchange
  The PHP Code Exchange is a great place to start. Here you’ll find many example scripts and useful functions, organized for easy finding. Includes a search function
• The PHP Classes Repository
  Useful PHP classes in a categorized listing

PHP Magazines

• Direction|PHP
  Direction|PHP is a monthly French speaking magazine, dedicated to PHP and MySQL. It covers industry news and technology reviews. It is mainly downloaded by professionnals, in PDF format.
• php|architect
  The first monthly English magazine about PHP, distributed in PDF format
• PHP Magazin
  The Software & Support Verlag, based in Frankfurt, Germany, has now published a magazine on PHP as a tribute to the steadily growing German PHP community (in German).
• PHP Magazine
  An English edition of the magazine mentioned above. The PHP Magazine is published bimonthly and aimed at professional PHP users.
• PHP Tunisie Magazine
  PHP Tunisie Magazine is a monthly French speaking magazine, distributed in PDF format and dedicated to PHP and its related technologies. It’s edited by the Tunisian PHP users group.
• ZPmag
  ZPmag is a webzine (exclusively online distribution newspaper), dedicated to PHP and its technologies (in French).

PHP Video and audio

• DVD PHP Québec
  The PHP Québec DVD was shot during the Montréal sessions, in 2003. It gathers 6 hours of advanced technics sessions, subtitled in French and English.
• CD-ROM PHP Québec
  The PHP Québec CD-ROM was recorded during the Montréal sessions, in 2004. It gathers 21 hours of advanced technics sessions in audio format, with the slides.

PHP Tutorials

• Database enabled websites tutorial
  Introductory tutorial
• E-gineer Instructions
  Lots of tutorials/instructions related to Apache, PHP and MySQL
• justPhukit!
  A collection of external links to PHP tutorials
• Melonfire
  A series of PHP tutorials for novices
• ONLamp
  Great collection of tutorials from O’Reilly
• technisch web ontwerp
  Site with information on a PHP course at a Dutch college.
• TheScripts.com
  Web Programming Resource – PHP Tutorials
• Tutorialfind
  A growing list of PHP tutorials at TutorialFind
• Video tutorials
  Video tutorials at Virtaul Training Company
• Webmonkey PHP
  The PHP section on the famous Webmonkey tutorial site
• Zend.com DevZone
  The tutorials section on the Zend.com developer zone

PHP Setup and Authoring Tools

• List of installation kits
  An extensive list of installation kits setting up servers and PHP for you in minutes.
• PHP Editors List
  A comprehensive list of editors you can use to edit PHP programs

Companies that provide commercial tools for PHP

• ActiveState
  ActiveState, a division of Sophos, produces Komodo, a professional integrated development environment (IDE) for open source languages.
• InterAKT Online
  InterAKT Online provides quality software development tools used by tens of thousands of PHP developers around the world, including PHAkt and Krysalis.
• ionCube
  ionCube produces PHP development and end-user tools, including the popular free PHP Accelerator and affordable encoding solutions for code protection.
• Macromedia
  Macromedia created Dreamweaver MX, a rapid web application development tool supporting PHP.
• Maguma
  Maguma produces an IDE with debugging to speed up the development of PHP enabled websites and applications.
• SourceGuardian
  SourceGuardian produces tools to help commercial developers distribute their scripts safely including the popular SourceGuardian Pro for encrypting and obfuscating PHP source code.
• NuSphere
  NuSphere delivers products and services that allow companies to deploy reliable, cost-effective database-driven Internet applications and sites.
• Zend Technologies, Inc.
  Zend Technologies, Inc. provides tools to Develop, Protect and Scale your PHP Applications.

PHP Accelerators

• After Burner
  Free open source accelerator available from Bware Technologies.
• APC
  Alternative PHP Cache, Free open source accelerator available from Community Connect.
• ionCube PHP Accelerator
  A free accelerator available from ionCube.
• Turck MMCache for PHP
  Free open source accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache from TurckSoft.
• Zend Accelerator
  Commercial accelerator available from Zend Technologies, Inc.

PHP Merchandise

• Copyleft
  Some t-shirts, hats and stickers with the Copyleft variant of the PHP logo on them.
• PHP projects’ merchandise
  A search result page with various PHP related projects’ shops (not all results are necessarily PHP related!)

Non-English PHP Sites

• Bosnian
  • PHP.co.ba
    Bosnian site with PHP and SQL manual, tutorials, scripts, forum, mailing list, tools, books…
• Brazilian
  • PHPBrasil.com
    Brazilian PHP portal with many links and information
  • PHPsite.com.br
    Brazilian PHP portal featuring tutorials, downloads, a forum and more
• Chinese
  • Exceed PHP
    Opensource site with PHP, MySQL and Apache tutorials, articles and scripts
• Croatian
  • PHP.izvor (PHP.source)
    Croatian site with news, source code, manuals, beginners guides, forums, questions & answers, on-line help for programmers, polls, tools, etc.
• Dutch
  • Pagina
    A Dutch PHP portal that lists a lot of PHP links, including free hosting
• Estonian
  • PHP Center
    The biggest Estonian portal site with tutorials, manual translations, discussion board, chat room, link collection, news, etc.
• French
  • Nexen.net
    Home of PHP French documentation, with comprehensive technical information, and all PHP related news
  • phpdebutant
    Apprendre le PHP par l’exemple, facilement et simplement. Réservé d’abord aux débutants.
  • phpfr
    Le site de référence sur PHP en France!
  • phpfrance
    Pour tout savoir sur le PHP, en français. Vous trouverez un tutorial, des exemples, des astuces, toute la documentation nécessaire, ainsi que des forums pour poser des questions.
  • PHPIndex
    A French gateway to PHP related contents
  • PHPscripts-fr
    More than 500 PHP applications, listed and sorted
  • phpTeam
    Site traitant du PHP pour les professionels (php et flash, mysql, postgresql, pear,…)
  • FAQ of the French PHP newsgroup : fr.comp.lang.php
    (was: fr.comp.infosystemes.www.auteurs.php)
• German
  • PHP Center
    German speaking portal site with tutorials, tips and tricks, job advertisements, articles and more
  • PHP-Homepage
    German site about PHP with scripts, tips, forums, MyGuestBook, articles, news and more
  • Dynamic-Webpages
    German site with installation guides, tips & scripts, BestOfGML, WhoIsWho – a view on german PHP-cracks, german manual, book reviews, links and more
  • PHPCrawler
    Searchengine over German PHP-sites with webaccess to newsgroups
  • PHPWelt
    A German website using PHP to offer free services, a huge script-archive, free scripts, tutorials and many more
  • php.martin-jansen.de
    German PHP resource (especially for newbies)
  • develnet.org
    Some German tutorials about PHP
  • SelfPHP
    German function reference for PHP like SelfHTML for HTML
  • phpGTK.de
    German site about PHPGTK
  • php-resource.de
    This german php community gives you everything you need. A large script-archive, lots of tutorials and a qualified moderated forum that answers nearly all your question
  • www.phpreferenz.de
    Free printable workshops for PHP newcomers
• Hungarian
  • PHP.lap.hu
    Starting point for Hungarian and International PHP sites
  • Weblabor
    Fresh news, articles, links and mailing lists from the world of web development and PHP
• Italian
  • FreePHP.HTML.it
    The biggest Italian speaking source for PHP: daily updated links to scripts, articles, tutorials and many other resources.
  • Tutorials.it
    An Italian site that provides a variety of developer tutorials, with a small PHP section
  • PHPcenter.it
    An Italian-language PHP site that features a variety of projects, reviews, courses, tutorials and other resources
  • Risorse.net
    Section of an Italian site that provides tutorials about PHP, hundreds of scripts, books and a list of free and pay webhosts which support PHP
• Norwegian
  • PHP@sindrem.com (http://www.sindrem.com)
    Norwegian site for newbies and intermediates. Installation help and scripts.
• Persian
  • IranPHP.net
    A site about PHP for Iranians, with news and forums.
• Polish
  • php.pl
    Daily updated website with articles, translations, the biggest PHP Polish forum, dedicated IRC server, legal information section, etc.
• Portuguese
  • Cidadela
    The PHP section of Cidadela provides articles, tutorials, a help forum, and an Application Market.
• Russian
  • phpclub.net
    International PHPClub community based in Russia. Forums, articles, lessons, consulting.
  • php.net.ua
    PHP in Russian. Full Russian documentation.
• Spanish
  • lpsz.org
    PHP news, articles , and scripts.
  • php.com.ve
    PHP dedicated site in Venezuela
  • PHP en Castellano
    Spanish PHP community. Articles, tutorials, courses, source code, forums, and more about PHP.
  • zonaphp.com
    News and tutorials
• Swedish
  • phpportalen.net
    A Swedish PHP portal with articles, news, forums and much more

• Turkish
  • phpkaynak.com
    A Turkish PHP portal site with articles, links, downloads, tutorials, courses, source code, forums, news, and much more about PHP & MySQL

On 24th and 25th of November you should not miss the lectures of the top speakers of the PHP Industry on Professional Software Development with PHP at Munich Conference Center.

10 international speakers offer you more than 20 hours of knowledge transfer in the topics “Development”, “Tools & Technologies”, “PHP 5 Certification”, “TYPO3 Certification”, “Search Engine Optimization” and “Design Patterns with PHP” on two days.

On November 24th, Pierre Joye from the PHP core team under Windows opens the congress with his keynote “PHP 5.3 and PHP 6″. Amongst others topics include OOP, Web Application Security 2.0, SOAP in PHP and Zend Framework.

The 25th November is a workshop day aimed at expanding and deepening your knowledge in PHP 5 Certification, TYPO3 Certification, Search Engine Optimization and Design Patterns with PHP.

More detailed information is available on our website Twitter or in our group on Facebook.

The Business Directory plugin for WordPress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog.
Shopping Cart Plugin

Shopping Cart software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online.
The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase, described metaphorically as “placing items in the shopping cart”. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable.
BBPress Forum Integration

BBPress Integration should work with most recent version of WordPress.
Database: bbPress can share user data with an existing WordPress installation.All you need to do is specify the location of that database on installation or afterwards in the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin.
Cookies: Integrating cookies allows your users to log in to either your WordPress blog or your bbPress forums and be effectively logged in to both. This feature requires your WordPress and bbPress installations to exist in the same domain name, or at least in sub-domains of the same domain name.
Exec-PHP Plugin

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.
All in One SEO Pack Plugin

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
FormBuilder Plugin

The Form Builder Plugin for WordPress allows you to build complex forms in the WordPress administrative interface without needing to know PHP or HTML. We’ve tried to make it simple enough for anyone to make them, yet customisable enough to use for the most difficult job.
Contact Form 7 Plugin

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. Note: Contact Form 7′s CAPTCHA module has been separated as Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin. Now you need to install it if you use CAPTCHA. If you don’t, you can use as in the past.
Sitemap Generator Plugin

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.
Sociable Plugin

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
GD Star Rating Plugin

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings.
Sideblog WordPress Plugin

Sideblog is a plugin for WordPress Blog Platform. It is one way of implementing “Asides” – a series of “short” posts, 1-2 sentences in length. This plugin allows you highlight a post category to always be in the sidebar (for example, Tweets via Twitter Tools if you do not want to use Twitter Tool’s widget).
WordPress Wiki Plugin

Tired of using Media Wiki? Sick of fighting with WordPress to get your own documentation project happening?

If so then WordPress Wiki Plugin is the answer for you. The new WordPress Wiki plugin made by the guys at Instinct (who brought you the famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin) have developed a new plugin that adds Wiki functionality to your WordPress powered website.
Advertising Manager Plugin

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
WordPress Related Posts Plugin

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.
WP Google Analytics Plugin

This plugin allows you to use the powerful Google Analytics to track your WordPress stats.
Broken Links Remover Plugin

Automatically remove the bad and broken links from the view of human visitors and search engine robots.
Popularity Contest Plugin

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

The values assigned to each view and feedback type are editable and can be changed at any time. When you change any of these values, the ‘popularity score’ for all posts are updated immediately to reflect the new values.
Article Directory Plugin

Article Directory Plugin for WordPress allows contributors to add articles to your WordPress blog. You have the control to allow or reject the article and publish it on your web site. Add customizable content to your WordPress blog in the shortest period of time. From user-friendly customization options to easy content creation process, Your Articles Directory prides itself in content authoring for your users… regardless of technical limitations. Our unique Article Directory System allows you to backfill your WordPress Blog with targeted content.
WP Hive Plugin

WP Hive is a WordPress Plugin that allows multiple WordPress Blogs to use the same core files, plugins, and themes.
Great Real Estate Plugin

Great Real Estate was developed to enable real estate agents, brokers, and REALTORS to display and manage information about their listings in WordPress pages.
The property information and listing templates allow for consistent display of the property listings across the site. Authors do not need to format the content, they simply enter it into a form.
Widgets and custom page templates permit display of only available homes, only sold homes, a random “featured” home, and a detailed property page for a listing.
WP-PageNavi Plugin

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
Events Calendar Plugin

Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. The plugin has an easy to use admin section that displays a big readable calendar and lets you add and delete events. The plugin is widget ready so you can easily add a small calendar to the main sidebar with the ability to roll over the highlighted event day to see a brief description of the event or click the day to get a full description of the event without ever leaving your current page. If you are not using a widget ready theme, you can still have the calendar on your sidebar. Simply place “” in the sidebar file. The widget can also show a specified number of events as a list. You will find these options under the widget option.
Event Registration Plugin

Allows you to register people online for events. Very flexible. Provides the ability to setup event list and accept online registrations for events and administer them via WordPress. Supports paypal and international currency via paypal. Provides the ability to upload events via CSV format. Provides the ability to have a single event or multiple events.
Register Plus Plugin

Enhance your Registration Page.Custom Logo Tired of that WordPress logo getting all the attention? Upload your own custom logo image and get your brand in the spotlight..
Facebook Connect Plugin

The “Community Facebook Connect Plugin” is a WordPress plugin that gives immediate Facebook Connect functionality to your blog. It was written by Jesse Stay, and released under the GPL. It requires you to set up your own app for your blog under the Facebook Developers site (just set your callback URL to your own website’s URL), and..
Next Gen Gallery Plugin

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums.
WP DB Backup Plugin

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
Translator Plugin

it adds little flags to your sidebar, which will take you to a translation of the current blog page. It uses Google Translate, but removes the frame, so it looks quite nice! Once you’re in one language, you can browse around the blog, and everything stays translated. You can just click on the English flag to get back to the original language. You should see it on my sidebar now, and you can give it a trial run.

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Initially I used to take backup of my database through phpmyadmin . But this process was very time consuming I had to spend almost half hour to one hour to take the backup.

Later I decided that I should automated this task, so I started searching on net to find some solution. Although I found many solutions, but they were not perfect for my requirement. Finally with the help of the ideas which I got through those solutions, I created my own solution to take the backup automatically.

I divided the process of taking backup in three parts and executed these task through cron jobs.

First part of the task was to take the backup of database using mysqldump command. This command takes the backup and store it in server.
The script to take backup is very simple. It consist of only two lines.

<?php
$filename=’backupfile’.date(’dmy’);
exec(”mysqldump -hlocalhost -uusername -ppassword databasename > /home/admin/domains/yourwebsite.com/public_html
/backupdirectory/$filename.txt”);
?>

First line create a file name which is consist of date parmeter to generate unique filename every day.
Second line take the back and store in the yourwebsite.com/public_html/backupdirectory.

Since the backup is in text format, In second step I convert text file in gzip format to compress it.
The script to convert text file into gzip file is

<php
$filename=’backupfile’.date(’dmy’);
exec(”gzip /home/admin/domains/yourwebsite.com/public_html/
backupdirectory/$filename.txt”);
?>

In third step, I send this file through email to my inbox. Since with ordinary mail function, we can not send attachment. I use phpmailer to send this file. The script to do the task is:

<?php
require(”class.phpmailer.php”);
$filename=’backupfile’.date(’dmy’);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = “localhost”; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
//$mail->Username = “youremail@yourdomain.com”; // SMTP username
//$mail->Password = “mailpassword”; // SMTP password$mail->From = “youremail@yourdomain.com”;
$mail->FromName = “From Name”;
$mail->AddAddress(”destination@youremail.com”); // Where you want to send backup
$mail->AddAttachment(”/home/admin/domains/
yourwebsite.com/public_html/backupdirectory/$filename.txt.gz”);
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = “Subject of Email”;
$mail->Body = “Body of Email”;
$mail->AltBody = “Alt Body of Email”;
if(!$mail->Send())
{

echo “Message could not be sent.”;
echo “Mailer Error: ” . $mail->ErrorInfo;
echo ”
“;
// exit;
}
?>

I run these three tasks through cron jobs, which is set to run everyday and I got the backup in my inbox daily. This saves a lot of my time in taking backup of my database, and I always have the latest backup of my database with me. Are you still using phpmyadmin to take the backup?

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