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What is PHP? PHP is an Open-Source server-side (processing occurs on the server) scripting language for creating dynamic (more responsive to user interaction) web pages. Dynamic Web applications are common in ecommerce, membership and forum web sites where the content displayed is generated from a data file or database. PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is estimated that by late 1996 PHP was in use on at least 15,000 web sites around the world. Today, many millions of web sites use the technology. As PHP is Open Source, there is a very strong community to support it and further develop and refine the technology. What is MySQL? MySQL is the world's most popular Open Source SQL (Structured Query Language) database management system. A database is a structured collection of data, which may be anything from a list of staff telephone numbers to complex information based on a query. The main benefits of MySQL are speed and robustness. Like PHP, MySQL is a rapidly evolving technology strongly supported by the Open Source community. MySQL was developed by Michael Widenius in the mid-1990s. It was developed to provide features that were missing from the very few Open Source databases available at the time. What is phpMyAdmin? phpMyAdmin is a PHP-based MySQL Administration package. It allows you to create, delete and view databases and tables. It will also allow you to backup and restore databases, plus perform simple and complex queries. phpMyAdmin was originally created by Tobias Ratschiller and released in 1998. phpMyAdmin is currently one of the most widely used PHP applications. Bringing it together Using PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin, you have everything you need to create many kinds of applications.
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