Worked on Cantata Version 3 starting mid-2016. Vacillated between different ways, current writing with these tools:

• PHP 5.6
• Laravel
• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• PHPStorm IDE

I set up the Oracle VirtualBox software, then ran some scripts under Vagrant which sets up a virtual machine with PHP, Laravel, MySql, and a micro web server. PhpStorm connects to this virual box, and using its built-in SSH Session window, I can run command line functions against Laravel's Artisan. 9/8/2016.

• JavaScript basic info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/JavaScript_basics

• JQuery API Docs: http://api.jquery.com/

http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php

• Tutorial, basic info: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-ajax.htm

• https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload (didn't work)
• https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader

• Database details

• create database quizkidn_cantata2;
• create user 'quizkidn_can2'@'%' identified by 'cantatapass2';
• grant all on quizkidn_cantata2.* to 'quizkidn_can2'@'%';
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
• select user from mysql.user;

http://usercake.com/docs.php

Noticed that just getting a MySQL connection from my workstation to the server ivan, took over 2 seconds.