What are CGI and PHP?

[lightstar]

As title.

For my case, I have registered a web site in an ISP and the E-mail and web
server are set in there in UNIX platform. Currently, I only use simple CGI
I/O operation to access the server. However, now I want to set up a database
in this server. What database that I can set up there?

I only know something about FoxPro, Access and SQL, does UNIX have some
database that similar to MySQL in Linux?

If the database is set, then how do I access this through the SQL
statements? How CGI ．carry・ the SQL statements and be processed in the
server? Or in more general, can a program send through CGI?

[dbia...@square.nl]

In comp.lang.java.databases lightstar <ltla...@hongkong.com> wrote:
> However, now I want to set up a database in this server.

You can't setup a database server (like MySQL or Oracle) if the server
does not supply one to you. You can use a file-based database or a simple
text file to store the data. Ask the ISP if it provide the database.

> If the database is set, then how do I access this through the SQL
> statements?

That depends by what the ISP support and allow you to use. Perl/PHP have some
special function to access databases, or you can deploy an executable
to access it. Again, ask the ISP.

Davide

[Robert Young]

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Rob

lightstar wrote:

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