i'm trying to get some work done...

hrmm... hi fellas. i've recently just started to learn PHP/MySQl. i mean i'm trying to pick up how the stuff works. so i can expand on my great knowledge of website programming. i guess i'm a programming enthusiast. need to do things logically. hey this thing can let me earn more money thru diversity of my human resource.

what is php? hypertext preprocessor. basically means, it's similar to asp, jsp, blahblah... what these stuff do is process a webpage on the server side first, before sending the processed data out to the client browser who wishes to view the page. why process you ask? for convenience's sake, the website owner can have a standardised template for all the pages of that site. if someone requests a page of that site, the server can process the page by combining it's contents with that of the standardised template to display a page desired by the owner of the site. that's just a simple example. other uses include having a database in the backend of the server where data can be stored/retrieved.

and what's so different about it from the rest? here's a simple breakdown...

• php: open source(aka free for developers), has a commercial version by Zend.com
• asp: by microsoft. monopoly. 'nuf said.
• jsp: java. sun microsystems. cross-platform friendly. commercial license costs big time.
• cfm: coldfusion, Macromedia bought Allaire & renamed it ColdFusionMX.
• cgi: common gateway interface, legacy server-side scripting on the web.

oh yeah and also finally at last in the end, if you fellas have recommendations for assignments to do website development, i've joined forces with a few fellow web monkeys and we promise to come up with a good quotation for ü. email me for details. will have more updates in future.

i'm still n00b to php 'kay... so spare me. and i'm rusty on my jsp and cfm. plus i barely learnt much about asp back then. cgi is like so dead now.