The Really Cool Stuff:
PHP and MySQL Website Development

PHP (officially "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. It's the computer language that I used to develop the website add-on programs.  When combined with a MySQL database, you get some very powerful facility.

If we break the definition down into smaller pieces, it is easier to understand.

• server-side: This means that PHP scripts execute on the Web server, not within the browser on your local machine.
  
  
• HTML embedded scripting language: This means that PHP statements and commands are actually embedded in your HTML documents. When the Web server sees the PHP statements in the Web page, the server executes the statements and sends the resulting output along with the rest of the HTML.

PHP is excellent for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other Web applications. A dynamic Web page is a page that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information. Dynamic Web applications are prevalent in commercial (e-commerce) sites, where the content displayed is generated from information accessed in a database or other external source.

PHP offers a simple and universal solution for easy-to-program dynamic Web pages. The intuitive interface allows programmers to embed PHP commands right in the HTML page. Its elegant design makes PHP significantly easier to maintain and update than comparable scripts in other languages. Because of its wide distribution to a large community of users, PHP is very well supported

Web Wise Sage is pleased to offer you its experience with both PHP and MySQL.

MySQL Databases

MySQL is a database management system, and a database is a structured collection of data. It may be anything from a list of products on your site or the large amounts of information in a corporate network. If you need to add, access, and process data stored in a computer database, you need a database management system. And MySQL is perfect for storing and sharing your information directly from your website.

MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust Structured Query Language database server. It is is a relational database management system which stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big storeroom which adds speed and flexibility. The tables are linked by defined relations making it possible to combine data from several tables on request.

MySQL is the most popular SQL database. It is very fast, reliable, and easy to use. MySQL was originally developed to handle large databases much faster than existing solutions and has been successfully used in highly demanding production environments for several years. MySQL Servers are available on most Internet websites. It's connectivity, speed, and security makes the MySQL server highly suited for accessing databases on the Internet.

Developing a database on your website is usually done in combination with requests from webpages written in PHP.

And here are the website applications I offer that are written using PHP and MySQL.