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Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or e-comm, is the buying and selling of
products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.
Electronic commerce draws on such technologies as electronic funds transfer, supply chain
management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI),
inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce
typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may
encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.
What is PHP?
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source
general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be
embedded into HTML.
What Can PHP Do?
PHP is a server-side scripting language whose primary purpose is to generate HTML content. Its
creator, Rasmus Lerdorf defines it as "a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, server-side web
scripting language" [Lerdorf 2002, p.1]. With the current direction of the Web, it is easily being
adapted to writing out all forms of XML content as well. The most recent version of PHP is PHP
4.
Personal Homepage (PHP): a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, server-side web scripting

language
It was originally developed as a set of server-side modules to perform some specific Web-server
tasks on small, Unix-based Web servers. Since then PHP has grown beyond the work of one man
writing some tools for his own use and into one of the most popular server-side scripting
languages in the Web.
Three thing make PHP popular. The first is that it is easy: easy to implement, easy to learn, and
easy to use. The second is that it is free. The third is that it runs on almost any Web server on
almost any platform currently available.
PHP is both a scripting language and a collection of tools for performing various server-side
functions in an HTTP, or Web, server. Since it is written as a collection of C-modules, it can go
beyond server-side scripting and can also be used to execute scripts from the command line and
for developing client-side GUI applications that can operate on most any platform.
The core features of PHP are built around the ability to process strings and arrays, as well as to
work as an object-oriented programming language. Beyond this most of PHP is a collection of
modules that can be added in on the server as needed to perform a large variety of specific tasks.
In other words, it is a highly customizable application, and you can keept it small by only
installing as much as you need to perform required tasks.
Database Access
One of set modules control database access. Using PHP with MySQL has become common
enough that the MySQL interface is now part of core PHP instead of a plug-in module. Most
other databases have modules that can be included in a PHP build to allow access. PHP can
access most any SQL or ODBC database. It can both read and write information in the database.
This opens up the door for a whole variety of online business applications that require data
storage on the server. Because of this, PHP is becoming an increasingly popular tool for e-
commerce.
File Access
PHP can read and write files. It can also do basic file and directory maintenance. Because of this,
you can use it to do such things as edit documents remotely. It can also be used to search flat file
collections for the existence of a given file or for the existence of information stored in files and
return the results. Information does not need to be coded into a database just to be accessible.
It can also take content and use it to generate files in various formats, including HTML and PDF.
It is an incrasingly popular tool for processing XML for HTTP distribution. It can also take data
and use it to generate e-mail, which is can send out through most any standard mail protocol.
Its ability to work across multiple data sources and return multiple content types makes it an
ideal tool for things like search engines and message boards.
Application Control
PHP started as an application control language. Specifically, it was designed to handle access
logging for HTTP servers. This ability has expanded greatly and now PHP can even be used as a
scripting language in such applications as Microsoft Word and Excel.
Graphics
PHP can not only manage text content, it can also manage graphic content. It can be used to
create graphs and charts. It can be used to generate GIF and PNG images on the fly, allowing
you, for instance, to have a button template that has the text added to it dynamically before being
sent to the client. This means you don't need a new image for each button, just one image that
has the text added as needed for each individual button.
Extensible
PHP is extensible. It is written in C and the underlying source can be expanded on with new
modules written in the same. It is also open source, so engaging in such expansion is permitted
and encouraged.
XAMPP ( /ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/[1]) is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack
package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts
written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
XAMPP is a protocol which allows messages to be sent in XML, the messages are constrained to type, it
can be anything, IM messages, or an application talking to another application over the internet. Jabber
has the most popular implementation and it is the same protocol used by Gtalk. There might be PHP
library that allows you to use XAMPP for communcation.
WAMPs are packages of independently-created programs installed on computers that use a

Microsoft Windows operating system.
WAMP is an acronym formed from the initials of the operating system Microsoft Windows and
the principal components of the package: Apache, MySQL and one of PHP, Perl or Python.
Apache is a web server. MySQL is an open-source database. PHP is a scripting language that can
manipulate information held in a database and generate web pages dynamically each time
content is requested by a browser. Other programs may also be included in a package, such as
phpMyAdmin which provides a graphical user interface for the MySQL database manager, or the
alternative scripting languages Python or Perl. Equivalent packages are MAMP (for the Apple
Mac) and LAMP (for the Linux operating system).

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Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or e-comm, is the buying and selling of

What Can PHP Do?

Personal Homepage (PHP): a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, server-side web scripting

WAMPs are packages of independently-created programs installed on computers that use a

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