From the Mandrake "cooker" mail list description:

PHP4 is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. PHP offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled script with PHP is fairly simple.

The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

This package contains a standalone (CGI) version of php. You must also install php4-common. If you need apache module support, you also need to install the mod_php package

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Notes

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Resources

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Recommended for Specific Needs

• How to Build, Install, Secure & Optimize PHP; Gerhard Mourani; viewed 17 Feb 2003 -- some criticism on slashdot, but might be a decent article -- notice the focus is on installing and securing, not using -- here's the referenced Slashdot thread

No Recommendation

• PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-side Scripting Language; Jun 4, 2002; -- PHP advocacy (sort of)

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Contributors

• RandyKramer - 30 Apr 2002
• BlueEel - 03 Apr 2003 Added a bit
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