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Current website development relies more on open source to handle forms and back end things. Whether it is a e commerce website or a portal, certain level of technical handling is there from server side. Certain redirection, conditional surfing based on ip address of client, privilege approving and database integration all are done by a software bundle named LAMP. LAMP is a short notation of individual software such as Linux (OS), Apache HTTP server, MySQL (DBMS) and of course PHP.

PHP has become one of widely used open source software product for developing hundreds of sites ranging from simple to complex one like WordPress. The P of LAMP may be sometimes replaced by another scripting language such as Perl or Python.


Benefits of MySQL:

Very low licensing cost
Low hardware consumption
Execute anything from data houses holding terabytes of data
Ultra-fast loading
Table and Index partitioning
Master/Slave replication with high speed reconfiguration utility
Multi-version Transaction support
Highly robust
Efficient query engine
Secure encryption decryption functions
Open source freedom


Benefits of PHP:

Easy to use
Simplified task handling in heavy traffic sites
Open source
Secure
Low cost
Being open source new functionality have been added consistently
Simple coding style
Highly functional to code simple to shopping cart projects

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