Some days ago I was working in a quiz project. Where user will play quiz and for each correct answer they will earn points. One of the task of this quiz application was, to get rank of a particular user. Now I am showing how could I solve this problem using mysql query.

Presentation given at OSCON 2009 on Scaling a web application (mostly PHP/MySQL) and gives a framework for creating scaling profiles and capacity/scenario profiling for your web site. An overview of Application and Database scaling steps and considerations.

Run-through of PHP and Database support in NetBeans

OpenSolaris Web Stack (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack) is an OpenSolaris project and community building an integrated stack of popular open source web tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP and Ruby On Rails optimized for Solaris platform. This session introduces OpenSolaris Web Stack, its status and future development including addition of newer technologies such as lighttpd, Varnish etc., as well as the ease of use features for developers and deployers. We will also be discussing an experimental web stack IPS package repository and it could be leveraged to build and make available popular end user applications such as Drupal.

mysqlnd, also known as MySQL native driver for PHP, is the new way of connecting from PHP to MySQL. It's a superior substitute to libmysql. mysqlnd is "native" to PHP, in means that it uses the infrastructure provided by PHP. In this session I will show why mysqlnd is better than libmysql, in the PHP world - performance, better resources utilization, quicker bug-fixing cycle and others.

There is a lot of buzz about Memcached and MySQL 5.1 and what it can do for your website. But how exactly do you go about setting it all up and write your code to make use of memcached? In this session, Adam Donnison will take you step by step through implementing memcached using real world examples in PHP from the MySQL.com website infrastructure.

In this session we will build a PHP+MySQL application in NetBeans that uses the Twitter API to find and graph a "meme" in Twitter.

What is libdrizzle? A complete client library rewrite for the Drizzle project. Why is this interesting for MySQL users? It supports the MySQL protocol and provides a non-blocking I/O interface. This session will demonstrate the power of connection pooling and how to run parallel queries to decrease overall processing time. PHP examples will be used, but other languages will be very similar.