Setup Apache, PHP and MySQL

Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

At the moment there are four XAMPP versions:

• a version for Linux systems (tested for Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and Debian),
• a version for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista,
• a beta version for Solaris SPARC (developed and tested under Solaris 8),and a beta version for MacOS X.

Off course you will get the phpMyAdmin with XAMPP well. Lets start using XAMPP.

Start downloading XAMPP here
» XAMPP for Windows
» XAMPP from SourceForge.net

AJAX Cross Domain

Virtually all modern server-side scripting languages support remote requests in one or another form. In client-side javascript, this functionality is not present due to the Same Origin Policy. Though this policy is necessary for a robust security model, programmers are often handicapped in their wish to send and retrieve requests to remote servers. During the last years, several proposals have been made for a more flexible (re-)design of the XMLHttpRequest object, which is the core mechanism of all AJAX based technologies. AJAX Cross Domain provides in the full functionality of the XMLHttpRequest object in a similar syntax, and can by extent handle all cross-domain requests. The core engine of AJAX Cross Domain is written in Perl and outputs its content as a javascript file.

Check out this URL for the solution: http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/