What is MySQL?
MySQL (pronounced My S-Q-L, or "My sequel" ) is a relational database management system which has more than 6 million installations.The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
MySQL is commonly used by free software projects which require a full-featured database management system, such as WordPress, phpBB and other software built on the LAMP software stack. It is also used in very high-scale World Wide Web products including Google and Facebook.
MySQL is used in web applications and acts as the database component. Its popularity for use with web applications is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL. Several high-traffic web sites (including Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google(though not for searches), Nokia, Auctionmarts and YouTube) use MySQL for data storage and logging of user data.
What is PHP?
PHP is one of the most popular languages for building dynamic web pages, and has excellent support for any FileMaker, Oracle or MySQL database.
The way it works is the script is embedded within a Web page along with its HTML. When someone visits a website and requests something the Web server then calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script. An HTML page that includes a PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of “.php”, “.php3”, or “.phtml”.
PHP is free and offered under an open source license.
