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InfoWorld: Treasure trove: PHP offers features that will make your Web apps sparkle

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 19, 1999

“PHP is a Web scripting language that is the functional
equivalent of Microsoft’s VBScript and Active Server Pages except
that PHP is more platform-agnostic. PHP runs on most free and
commercial versions of Unix. It currently has limited support for
Apache…”

“There are already 500,000 Internet domains that use PHP3. A
growing list of ISPs are offering support for PHP3. And you can
find an impressive catalogue of commercial sites using PHP at
www.php3.org/sites.php3.

“PHP3 provides myriad powerful features for your Web
applications.”

“If you want to see a good example of PHP3 and MySQL on Linux in
action, check out the site www.zcentral.com by SDN Online.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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