Chapter 1. Setting Up Your Development Environment
Introducing Dynamic Web Sites
Today's World Wide Web (WWW) is a dynamic, interactive environment for transactions of many types — commerce, research, forums, and so on. In dynamic Web sites, HTML forms collect information that is used to build additional Web pages or is stored, or both. If the Web site stores information, a back-end database is required. For example, most online catalogs are databases of product information. Customers select the type of product that interests them via an HTML form, and the Web page displays only the requested product information. HTML alone does not provide the functionality needed for dynamic Web sites. The most popular dynamic Web site technology is the PHP scripting ...
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