If
you want to do more comprehensive programming that work against large or
small databases as part of your site building, you would have to turn to the following
type of scripting or other similar tools. However these only concern to
large websites.
Role of MySQL in site building.
MySQL is an open source database application supported
by many web hosts. The beauty is that this is completely free and the
hosting would come cheaper than using any other database.
Active Server Pages in site
building.
The subject that we will discuss in the
next page for retrieving
database results utilise asp. ASP is simple, flexible and easy to use. These
are scripts embedded in HTML pages; however these scripts get executed at
the IIS and the visitor sees only the results of the code execution in HTML
and on his page.
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side
technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is made as an extension
to Internet Information Server (IIS).
ASP.NET (part of the Microsoft .NET platform). The
pre-.NET versions are currently referred to as "classic" ASP. Even though
ASP.NET takes its name from Microsoft's old web development technology, ASP
(Active Server Pages), the two differ widely.
Programmers can write ASP.NET code using any of the
different programming languages supported by the .NET framework, usually
Visual Basic.NET or C#.
You must remember that ASP runs only on Microsoft’s web
servers. There is an implementation from chillisoft which enables ASP on
unix. However limitations need to be evaluated.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used open-source programming language
primarily for server-side applications and developing dynamic web content,
and more recently, other software. The name is a recursive acronym for "PHP:
Hypertext Preprocessor". Famous example of PHP application is phpBB
The PHP model can be seen as an alternative to
Microsoft's ASP.NET/C#/VB.NET system, Macromedia's ColdFusion system, Sun
Microsystems' JSP/Java system, and to the CGI/Perl system.
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