PHP & MySQL Development
PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to track the visitors to his online résumé; thus, it originally stood for “Personal Home Page ”. As its capabilities grew (and as more people started to use it), it came to stand for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor,” which basically means that PHP handles data before it becomes HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
According to the official PHP Web site, PHP is “a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. ” This may sound like a mouthful, but it’s fairly straightforward and meaningful when broken down into its parts.
MySQL is an open source relational database management system that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). MySQL can store many types of data from something as tiny as a single character to as large as complete files or graphics. Although it can be accessed by most programing languages, it is often coupled with PHP because they work together with ease.
