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Asked on 14/3/2006, 9:33

I am thinking of making a web page and they have a requirement of my Web Server to have "PHP software and MySQL database" I have no idea what this is.

Does Asis have this?
Thank you,
Joyce

Reply Posted on 14/3/2006

Firstly, webpages are generally written in HTML, which is the language which you would be writting in (or generating with Frontpage etc...) HTML is generally enough initially to create a good looking webpage, although it does have its limits, which become more apparent when you start doing more advanced things, which is what PHP tries to address.

PHP (which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor) allows for dynamic generation of HTML. So, for example if you have users entering data, then PHP can be used to process this data and incoperate it into another page.... it could be used for a forum, to allow for users buying items etc... There are another other languages which perform similar functions, but PHP is one of the more powerful ones yet easy to learn, and so has become very popular. Its website can be found at www.php.net

MySQL is a database system. If you wish to store data, such as forum postings, user names, customer addresses etc... then a database is the way to go, as it allows for easy storage and organisation of the data. Im not sure if you have heard of Microsoft Access, in the Office suite - that is a common database too. However, MySQL is a lot more designed for the internet and can be used with PHP to easily save and retrieve data.

As far as the need for them goes, they are prety much standard on all good hosts (although the free ones such as yahoo, angelfire etc do not provide them) and Asis does provide them when you sign up. You may not think you require them at the moment, but as your skill increases you may find you do, and a number of installable scripts (such as forums) can often require them.

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