there’s more background information from adriaan at ibm developerworks. its a good read if you’re a serious developer.

currently, html 4 and xhtml 1.1 coexist. it would be interesting how the browsers would implement the new standards.

fortunately, the font pack is available via ubuntu. its not installed by default since the font pack is proprietary. if you want to read up on its background you can visit this site.

the pack contains the following fonts:

Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings

installing the font pack is easy with the help of the synaptic package manager. just for a search for “msttcorefonts” (without the quotations)

and then click on the check box beside the msttcorefonts entry and click mark for installation

the click on apply

you will then see an apply summary dialog box

click on apply and synaptic will start downloading and install the package

once the package is installed you will see this dialog box

just click on close and you’re almost done. there’s a bug in the installation of fonts that you’d have to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. just do a restart and you’re all set.

i used carthik’s ubuntu blog as reference and it also has instructions on how to install the fonts via the console.

he also mentioned in another of his blog entry about 300 easily installed free fonts for ubuntu. its a good read so check it out if you get the time.

The PDT project is working towards providing a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project will encompass all development components necessary to develop PHP and will facilitate extensibility. It will leverage the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities.

note: the following instructions are for running php 4.4.4 with apache 1.3.37 on win32 only. other packages combinations will have a different set of installation instructions.

- download the php 4.4.4 zip package from php.net

- extract to d:\ with subdirectories enabled; i extracted in d:\ and renamed the main subdirectory from d:\php-4.4.4-win32 to d:\php.

- read the install.txt file. the detailed instructions are there on how to install php in different operating environments and with different web servers.

- to make things easier, add the php subdirectory (d:\php) to the path environment variable so the system can easily find it. do this whether the cgi, the command line interface or the sapi module is going to be used.

- move the contents of the d:\php\dlls and d:\php\sapi subdirectories to the main php subdirectory d:\php.

- copy the php.ini-recommended file to where the apache binary is located and rename it to php.ini

- if you are using include files, add the full path name to the paths and directories section of php.ini.

- modify the apache configuration file (httpd.conf) to load the php4 module and recognize php pages when apache starts

at the end of the loadmodule section add:

LoadModule php4_module “d:/php/php4apache.dll”

at the the end of the addmodule section:

AddModule mod_php4.c

add the following line inside the first ifmodule mod_mime.c conditional brace (i found there were two)

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

modify the directoryindex entry to look like the following:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

do not forget to restart apache after applying the changes above.

zonealarm

i have zonealarm doing minor firewalling duties (smoothwall does most of the work). i set it so that apache doesn’t have access to the internet nor act as a server to the internet; access and serving duties are only approved to the trusted zone. for more info on zonealarm zones you can refer to the user forums or the support center at the zonealarm tech support.

apache startup settings
apache, by default, runs when the computer starts up. to change this behavior i had to change its startup settings in the windows services. to call up windows services go to the control panel, launch administrative tools and then launch services. you should be able to see something similar as shown below

to edit the apache service, double click on apache and you should see a dialog box like the one below

i set my startup type as manual so that apache doesn’t start until i say so and then i clicked on the stop button to stop the service.

apache monitor

there’s this little program that comes with apache 2 that monitors apache services running on the computer. it can start, stop or restart an apache service and call up the windows services program. it resides on the sytem tray and it works with apache 1.3 servers. nice. the bad thing is that its not available as a separate download. so i

• downloaded apache 2
• installed the thing
• copied the apache monitor executable (apachemonitor.exe) from version 2′s apache\bin subdirectory to the 1.3.37 apache\bin subdirectory
• created a shortcut for it in the startup folder
• uninstalled apache 2

now i can start/stop/restart apache any time i want to.