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PHP, the PHP Hypertext
Processor, is an open
source server-side scripting
language for Web servers,
which provides a real
alternative to ASP,
ColdFusion, Mod_Perl or JSP
if your aim is to provide
dynamic Web pages. Dynamic
Web pages are pages which
interact with the user, so
that each user visiting the
page sees customized
information - which may vary
each time and which may be
based on a form they've just
filled in, or on information
extracted from a database or
some other external source.
Typical applications include
e-commerce, online
newspapers, visitors' books,
ticketing systems, project
management, and other
groupware projects. The
traditional way to produce
this type of dynamic page is
via CGI scripts, but these
are separate programs which
must be executed as a new
process for each page hit,
so they scale badly and
rapidly become memory and
processor hogs as server
load increases...
Date: May, 03 2004 |