PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally used in web development to create dynamic and database driven websites. PHP code is embedded into HTML and used a web server and that generates the web page. PHP is available as a processor on all web servers since it works well on many operating systems. One great thing about PHP is that it is a “FREE” open source software and therefore it has a large following.
MySQL is a relational database that runs on a web server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. MySQL is officially pronounced (“My Sequel”) BishopWebWorks,Inc. prefers to use the combination of PHP / MYSq in our web site developement.. However, we are more than happy to use Cold Fusion, ASP, .NET, JSP and Perl.
