Php+mysql 3rd Pass

Introduction of Php/mysql
You should have heard of open source software (OSS) unless you've been living on Mars for the last 6-8 months. The movement has a tremendous impact and has attracted the attention of some big companies. Like Oralce, Informix, and a number of companies are starting to migrate their main database products to one of the products of OSS-the Linux operating system.
If you have enough technical power, having a complex and huge relational database system (RDBMS) is a powerful force. But maybe you're just getting started with the database, and you've just read Jay's article and decided to work on a data-driven Web site. But you may find that you lack the necessary resources to run an ASP server or an expensive database system (and you don't need those things). You need some free, UNIX-enabled stuff.
Then I suggest you use PHP and MySQL. Together, these two things are the best combination for developing data-driven Web sites. In fact, I don't have to bother to explain. The number of hosts applying PHP jumped from 7,500 units in June 1998 to 410,000 in March 1999, according to an unofficial survey organized by Netcraft. Nice, huh? The combination of the two software also won the annual Database Product award at the Webcon98 conference, and won a beautiful trophy.
MySQL is a small and long database server software, for small (and not necessarily very small) application system is very ideal. In addition to supporting standard ANSI SQL statements, it supports a wide variety of platforms, while on UNIX systems the software supports multithreading and can achieve fairly good performance. For users who do not use UNIX, it can be run as a system service on a Windows NT system, or run as a normal process on a Windows 95/98 system.
PHP is a scripting language for server-side interpretation. If you have contacted ASP, you should be more familiar with embedding code in HTML pages. The PHP code is interpreted at the end of the server into a normal HTML page content and sent to one end of the browser. This pattern allows us to use it to perform quite complex functions.
In addition to free this (of course, MySQL also has some restrictions on licensing), the Php-mysql combination can also run across platforms, which means you can develop on Windows and then run on UNIX platforms. In addition, PHP can be used as a standard CGI process to run, at this time it is a stand-alone script interpreter, or Apache is an embedded module.
If you are interested in using a different database server, PHP also supports Informix, Oracle, Sybase, solid, and PostgreSQL, as well as common ODBC.
PHP supports some cutting-edge technologies for Internet development. These technologies include identity authentication, XML, dynamic image generation, WDDX, shared memory, and dynamic PDF documents, among other things. If you are not satisfied, PHP is very easy to expand, so as long as you have the ability to programming, you can do your best.