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PHP, MySQL
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Mysql is a database PHP is a serverside scripting language.
They are used extensively on the web for the following reasons
1) They are free
2) Most webservers provide them
3) PHP will do almost anything you want on the web and it is cross platform ie will run on different operating systems
4) Mysql is an extremel versatile DB system again ideally suited to web applications.
One of the advantages of using a database on a website is that you can keep all data separate from the actual webpages this allows for easy updating of the text within the pages and or you can create dynamic pages ie used in conjuction with php the web pages can be created on the fly using the info stored in the database.
Hope this helps
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They are used extensively on the web for the following reasons
1) They are free
2) Most webservers provide them
3) PHP will do almost anything you want on the web and it is cross platform ie will run on different operating systems
4) Mysql is an extremel versatile DB system again ideally suited to web applications.
One of the advantages of using a database on a website is that you can keep all data separate from the actual webpages this allows for easy updating of the text within the pages and or you can create dynamic pages ie used in conjuction with php the web pages can be created on the fly using the info stored in the database.
Hope this helps
Ian Infinity exists! - I just haven't worked out a way to get there yet.
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