Meeting May 4 - Putting Databases on the Web using PHP

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Bruce will start this presentation with a brief introduction to standard 
HTML web pages and ordinary CGI programming for those people who are not 
familiar with web design.  Then we will move into the main presentation, 
"Professional Home Pages", known as PHP or PHP3 (version 3). 

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language that 
lets you create dynamic web pages.  PHP-enabled web pages are treated just 
like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you 
normally create regular HTML pages. 

Perhaps the strongest and most significant feature in PHP3 is its database 
integration layer.  Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple. 
PHP3 currently supports over a dozen different databases.  Bruce will discuss 
a complete database application that was recently developed on the KLUG web 
server to keep track of membership status.  We will cover what is needed to 
run PHP, and go over the entire source code of the database application. 

Bruce will finish this presentation with a short overview of the other non- 
database features in PHP, which makes PHP a very robust and powerful package 
for web page design. 

Bruce Smith: 
Bruce Smith is a Systems Administrator and Software Developer for Armstrong 
International Inc. where he is responsible for a HP-UX network of Servers, 
Workstations, printers and X-Terminals spanning five buildings in 
ThreeRivers. Bruce has a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from 
Central Michigan University. (go Chips! :) Bruce runs Linux, almost 
exclusively, on all his PC's at work and home, and runs some of 
Armstrong'snetworking services on Linux. 


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