Chapter 11
Using Server-Side Technologies
It’s pretty hard to find a website these days that doesn’t use some kind of server-side scripting and a database. So many different options are available, from commercial products to open source products, that it can be really daunting to decide which direction you want to go. In the case of web servers, web scripting languages, and databases, the open source alternatives are just as good as (and in some cases, even better than) the commercial options.
This chapter isn’t going to walk you through the syntax of each of the various languages, and it isn’t an instruction manual about how to set up ...
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