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 PHP
PHP is a popular freeware web applications
development tool. PHP includes an HTML-embedded scripting language and a
server-side preprocessor that interprets the HTML-embedded code in order
to create dynamically generated web pages.
PHP includes support for various databases, including mSQL,
MySQL, and PostgreSQL,
and is commonly used for the development of database enabled web sites.
Many people find the embedded nature much easier to deal with than trying
to create separate HTML and CGI files.
Like other preprocessed, html-embedded scripting languages, it has many
of the more useful features of Perl but is designed for HTML development
in mind. It eliminates the need for numerous small Perl CGI programs by
allowing you to place simple scripts directly in your HTML files. This speeds
up the overall performance of your web pages since the overhead of forking
Perl several times has been eliminated. It also makes it easier to manage
large web sites by placing all components of a web page in a single html
file. Similar tools commercially available include Miva,
Aestiva HTML/OS,
and Meta-HTML PRO.
Installing PHP
More Information
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