Apache is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation?s Apache Server Project at www.apache.org. The Apache Web server, for those of you who haven?t heard of it, is arguably the most popular Web server in use on the Internet today. While Microsoft contends that its Internet Information Server (IIS) is making huge gains, it?s still struggling in many ways against Apache. The reasons are not hard to seek. For starters, you don?t have to be running Windows to run Apache. It was first developed on the various Unix/Linux/BSD platforms, then recently ported to Win32. The IIS, while a good Web server on the NT platform, is trapped in the "Windows-only" world. While IIS has many handy features, not everyone wants to run NT for their Web server?s OS.
This lab series is not a tutorial on writing PHP programs or scripting dynamic Web pages. Rather its intent is to demonstrate how you can use PHP to separate the different elements that make up well designed and valid Web pages into their component parts and have these parts adapt in certain powerful ways. These components correlate almost exactly with the modular design of XHTML itself. Any number of other open-source languages such as Perl or Python could be used to achieve the same goal. Or commercial ones certainly, but let?s not go there.
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Today we may assume with confidence that internet commercial activity cannot be considered as an outstanding step of a company that wishes to increase its market share by attracting new customers. Quite the contrary, in the modern world almost every company involved in sell/purchase activity yet lacking its virtual business representation, evokes a sincere perplexity. As a result, there are many IT companies offering their software products developed specially for e-business; but almost every software product has its own sticking points.
While the success of Open Source software like Linux or Apache has been documented extensively throughout all mainstream media, the rise of PHP has gone largely unnoticed. Still, the Web scripting language PHP is the most popular module for the Apache Web server, according to a E-Soft survey (http://www.e-softinc.com/survey/). Netcraft studies have found that PHP is in use on over 6% of all Web domains in the world (see http://www.netcraft.com/survey). That is an incredible market penetration for a rather specialized product. This popularity continues to rise exponentially, with the new version 4.0 just around the corner. Increasingly, this is being reflected in traditional media: By May 2000, more than 20 books about PHP have been published in different languages, with more in the pipeline. Commercial players are beginning to join the bandwagon: PHP is included with Web servers, for example C2's Stronghold, and Linux distributions. A new company, Zend Technologies, has been formed to provide commercial add-ons and support for PHP. A long list of large-scale Web sites employ PHP, as well as hundreds of thousands small to medium Web sites. Enough reasons to take a closer look at PHP.
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