Chapter 9. GO SERVER-SIDE
Mapping APIs are popular because they bring a lot of power to the web browser that used to be much more difficult for the average developer to achieve. Plenty of situations still exist, however, where your application will benefit from scripts that run outside of the browser. This is when you'll need to go server-side.
In this chapter, we'll look at two popular technologies that run on a server: PHP, a programming language used mostly to output web pages; and MySQL, a database for storing text, numbers, and a whole lot more. As opposed to the numerous other available technologies, I've chosen these two for their ubiquity—almost ...
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