PHP

• "Personal Home Page"
• A specialized language for building web-based applications, especially those incorporating databases
• Lots of resources:
  • PHP Builder
  • PHP Net
  • PHP Club
  • Berber's PHP Examples
  • PHP Code Exchange
• Sample program

  <?php
  /* Connect to database with persistent connection (maintained
     for the duration of the Apache process.
     Persistent connections are not possible with CGI.
  */
  
  $conn = my_connect("host=db.company.com user=my_name 
  	password=my_passwd dbname=my_db");
  
  if (!$conn) {
      echo "Error.\n";
      exit;
  }
  
  $sql="SELECT * FROM my_table;";
  
  $result_set = my_exec ($conn, $sql);
  
  $rows = my_numrows($result_set);
  
  if ((!$result_set) || ($rows < 1)) {
      echo "<H1>ERROR - no rows returned</H1><P>";
      exit;
  }
  
  for ($j=0; $j < $rows; $j++) {
      echo my_result($result_set, $j, "column_name");
  }
  
  ?>