A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

PHP, pecl, phpize PDO, mysqli for Perl devs

"pecl" is the same as "cpan"
"phpize" is the equivalent of "perl Makefile.pl"
"PDO" is PHP's DBI equivalent (i.e. general purpose RDBMS connector)
"mysqli" is the more modern version of the mysql-specific connector