It's a text file, similar to HTML with Sambar Scripting. It allows the server to process data and create a webpage from it, then serve that web page. The thing I like best about it is that it is not platform specific, meaning you can host php pages on most web servers. For example, - Microsoft's ASP code can only be hosted on Window's machines with Microsoft's IIS (ignoring thrid-party add-ons for the moment) - Sambar scripting can only be hosted on Windows machines running Sambar server. - PHP can be hosted on Windows, Unix, Linux and Macs, running most web servers. This allows you portability and scalability should your website grow beyond your ability to host it. You can find most any web provider, and transfer the whole site to them without any re- coding.
You can create them with any text editor, and most better web page builders (look at AceHTML). If you want to see a sample of it in action, go to www.CrawfordHistory.org/Legacy/index.php3 These pages retrieve data from an Access database (I would never have chosen Access myself, but it's the database from the genealogy program "Legacy"). The PHP pages retrieve the data, process it, and create an HTML page, that Sambar then sends to you. You can find out more about them at www.php.net 10/24/2001 7:07:25 PM, "Global411" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what are php pages ? how are they used and how do you create them ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with email data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar
