Finally I started exploring Symfony because Drupal 8 (the biggest things ever happened to Drupal community) uses a few components of Symfony. So I thought instead having a vague idea why don’t dedicate this month in exploring Symfony and get an idea of the base on which Drupal 8 is built.
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Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server Database from PHP in Ubuntu.
To use the MSSQL extension on Unix/Linux, you first need to build and install the FreeTDS library.
I am assuming we got this:
- A Microsoft SQL Server installation running under Windows.
- Ubuntu Linux. I am using 14.04 LTS
Setup a Virtual Host for Your site in XAMPP
In my previous blog I explained how you can setup a Drupal site in you local environment using XAMPP. As I already mentioned there that it is great to run a website in a local machine using http://localhost but it have a drawback. By default you have a single domain and you have to pull all your work under the same domain in different directories. This isn’t very real and can cause problem while using server side includes and root relative links. But there is always a solution to every problem.
There is no place like 127.0.0.1
No matter where you go if you have your localhost running then you got a home. A local server is like a playground for developers. Don’t have an internet connection, want to test out dummy lorem ipsum text for content, want to constantly upload photos, these doesn’t matter when you are working on 127.0.0.1 aka “localhost”. With a few clicks you can easily setup your own website using the champ Drupal. The local server is the legs with which a Drupal website can start running like Forrest Gump.
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