What AWS can do in PHP:
- Full websites you can build, edit and manage on the fly
- Email clients, such as email marketing tools
- Databases for products, vendors, clients, or any other information you need to organize
- Blog (weblog) sites
- Forums
- Charts and Statistics
- Much more
PHP (which stands for "Pre-Hypertext Processor"), is an open-source web coding language built on C++ by
Zend. It interacts with such database technologies as
MySQL
and MSSQL to fuel database-driven websites, and can perform a plethora
of different operations such as date calculations, email handling,
website statistics reporting, image creation, and even socket handling,
which controls how information is sent and received through a
computer's ports.
PHP is a server-side coding language, which means that it sits on the computers that
host your website,
invisible to the casual observer. If you go to view the source of a PHP
page you're viewing (in Internet Explorer, for instance, you would
click at the top on the "View" menu, then choose "Source"), you won't
be able to see the PHP code. This is because the server reads it before
the page is sent to you, then tells your browser what to output based
on the PHP: and what reaches your browser is pure HTML.
PHP is compatible with most server operating systems, but is best suited for use with the
Apache server on the
Linux
operating system. AWS recommends the Apache/Linux combination, as it is
the most secure and stable server setup on the Net today, and therefore
is the most widely used.
Additional Information on Server-side Scripting
Ever wondered how server-side scripting languages work?
Here's a diagram of the process. Note that sometimes the Internet user
doesn't have to input anything; the website can be built dynamically
and pieced together based on how the coder has designed it.
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