ØKB2071 Web Applications

Software

• Apache Web Server
• PHP programming language
• MySQL database management

Applications

• market analyses
• online surveys
• file management
• access control
• search engines
• e-learning
• e-commerce

Key Terminology

• A Web Server is a program that delivers Web pages to client machines in a network (for example, Apache).
• A Web page is a multimedia document that may consist of text, sounds, images, animation, videos, and links.
• A Web browser is a program that can read Web pages.
• A Web application is a server-based system that communicates with users through one or more Web pages.
• A static Web application consists of static Web pages (the content does not change).
• A dynamic Web application creates new Web pages each time the server asks for them.
• An application server is a program that can generate Web pages each time the Web server asks for them (for example, PHP).
• A database is a collection of data that is managed by a DBMS.
• A DBMS (DataBase Management System) is a collection of programs designed to create databases, and to register, store, retrieve, update, and delete data from the databases (for example, MySQL).

The graphic design on this page is based on Stormweather by Dave Shea, submission nr. 3 at CSS Zen Garden.