PHP and MySQL: Data driven Web pages made easy

Eugene F Burger
OAR/PMEL

Web pages with some dynamic components are becoming the norm. Dynamic content in web pages can vary from writing the date to the page, to complex data tables or graphics created from data requested, or possibly sourced, from multiple databases.

MySQL is an Open Source database management server, which has become very popular for use for lightweight applications. PHP is a server side application server, which provides functionality for providing dynamic web content. PHP also has its own cross-platform, HTML, embedded scripting language. Both MySQL and PHP are Open Source tools, and are therefore freely available to any developer wanting the create data driven dynamic web pages. Both have very large user communities.

In this tutorial I will list the features of PHP and MySQL and also discuss the installation and functionality of each. The tutorial will have some code samples from a simple dynamic web application. Since users have a large number of choices of similar applications, considerations for application server and database choice will be explained.

Conference Center - Paper Thursday, 10:30 - 11:30 A.M