Thursday, September 3, 2009

What Is PHP? What Is MySQL?


PHP And MySQL Are Powerful Tools Used To Create Dynamic Web Sites

What Is PHP?
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for use on the Web. This means you can put (or imbed) PHP code into a HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language, it's the code that makes up web pages) web page. Each time the web page is displayed, the PHP code will run and generate output to the web page. Often the generated output shown on a web page by PHP code comes from a database. PHP is very good at interacting with MySQL databases.

What Is MySQL?
MySQL is a relational database management system and it is very fast, and very rich in features. MySQL allows you to store, search, sort, and retrieve data on a Web site.

The combination of PHP and MySQL allows you to develop very powerful and content rich dynamic Web sites.