Brian Lucas TechITT Technical Institute CapStone Project

Table of Contents WordPress – Definitions

PHP - Definitions

MySQL - Definitions

Conclusion

WordPress What is WordPress? WordPress is a popular blogging and content

management system which includes all tools and features you need to publish a blog or complete Web site on your own without allot of learning technical understanding.

WordPress software is a personal publishing system that uses a PHP – and – MySQL platform, which provides you everything you need to create your blog and publish your content dynamically without having to program the pages yourself.

PHP PHP is a server-side HTML-embedded, cross platform scripting language.

PHP provides a way for you to put instructions in your HTML files to create dynamic content. These instructions are read and parsed by the web server; they never actually make it to the browser that is displaying the page. The web server replaces your PHP code with the content that the code was written to produce.

PHP can be configured to run either as a server module or as a standalone CGI script.

PHP The PHP language itself borrows concepts from other common languages,

such as C and Perl.

PHP provides a wide variety of functions that support everything from array manipulation to regular expression support.

PHP and HTML are two different languages

You need to help your server tell them apart so that it knows which parts to process as PHP.

PHP Always open PHP code with <?php and end it with ?>. You can do this as

many times as you want in your document.

Everything between <?php and ?> must use correct PHP syntax, or you get one of those dreaded parse errors that can be hard to figure out if you are new to PHP.

PHP is sure to be improved over time as technology advances.

MySQL So why use MySQL? The MySQL database has become the world's most

popular open source database because of its high performance, high reliability and ease of use. It is also the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations including Facebook, Google, Adobe, Alcatel Lucent and Zappos rely on MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software.

MySQL MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac OS,

Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX