Let us look at
the solutions currently offered by host providers. The most prevalent is the
PHP/MySQL combination.
Well-supported by their respective home sites, http://www.php.net and
http://www.mysql.com, this duo has enabled developers to offer a lot of
ready-made open-source web applications, and most importantly, enabled in-house
developers to quickly put in place solid web solutions.
MySQL, which is mostly compliant with the SQL:2003 standard, is a database system
well known for its speed, robustness, and small connection overhead, which is
important in a web context where pages must be served as quickly as possible.
PHP, usually installed as a module inside the web server, is a popular scripting
language in which applications are written to communicate with MySQL (or other
database systems) on the back-end, and browsers on the front-end. Ironically,
the acronym's signification has evolved itself along with the Web evolution, from
Personal Home Page to Professional Home Page to its current recursive definition:
PHP: Hypertext Processor. A reference about the successive name changes can
be seen in PHP's source code itself at http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php3/
CHANGES?r1=1.23&r2=1.24. Available on millions of Web domains, PHP drives its
own wave of quickly developed applications.
What is phpMyAdmin?
phpMyAdmin is a web application written in PHP and contains??”like most web
applications??”XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript client code.
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