TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
The technology selected for implementing Student Information Management System is PHP/MYSQL. Apache is used as the HTTP server. The development was done in a ‘windows’ environment using adobe Dreamweaver CS5.
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to server side web development where PHP generally runs on a web server. PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document.
Any PHP code in a requested file is executed by the PHP runtime, usually to create dynamic web page content. It can also be used for command-line scripting and client-side GUI applications. PHP can be deployed on many web servers and operating systems, and can be used with many relational database management systems (RDBMS).
It is available free of charge, and the PHP Group provides the complete source code for users to build, customize and extend for their own use.
MySQL
MySQL is a relational database management system RDBMS that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications and is an open source product. The process of setting up a MySQL database varies from host to host, however we will end up with a database name, a user name and a password. Before using our database, we must create a table.
