What are PHP and MySQL

By Angela Bradley, About.com Guide

PHP is a scripting language that is often embedded into HTML to add functions HTML alone can't do. PHP allows you to collect, process and utilize data to create a desired output. In short, it let's you interact with your pages.

PHP is able to preform a number of tasks including printing data, making numeric calculations (such as addition or multiplication), making comparisons (which is bigger, are they equal, etc) and making simple boolean choices. From this you can create more complex loops and functions to make your page generate more specialized data.

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• Why use PHP and MySQL?
• What is PHP
• What is MySQL
• How do PHP and MySQL work together?
• Running PHP and MySQL

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