PHP and Security

PHP was initially designed to script web pages with security as one of its primary considerations, however as it can act either as a common gateway interface (CGI) script on the server-side (e.g. run in CGI mode on some servers) or on the client side to generate...

Is HTML Dead?

HTML was developed as a standardised approach to information mark-up and new versions have certainly been developed over the years to increase complexity, readability and to take account of the increasing use of graphics and presentation techniques. However if we...

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an operating system, programming language and database independent Application Programming Interface (API). ODBC allows database management systems to be accessed by any application using the SQL language without regard to how the...

SQL History

The standards associated with the initial versions of SQL added much needed conformity to a specialism that could have become as diverse as programming languages leading to an even greater increased system complexity today; we have to thank IBM in the 1970s for making...