Originally posted on 29 Jul 2008

Hi masters,

You see a site with same content, same design and same navigation, and opening in an .html extension. Well this is a static site.

On the other hand you see a site where everything seems to automatically done. These sites are dynamic and usually have and extension like .php, .asp, .jsp, etc. They look just like html pages but have several other features. Out of all the languages, php is the most sought after because it is light and has great functionality, and most important it is free. It can run on most kind of servers.

To make a site dynamic you need need a database along with your object oriented web developing language. For this, mysql is the best and is free too. Along with php, mysql is the most widely used database system.

Divyun.com is running wordpress which makes use of php and mysql. Php and mysql seriously rock and are the life of internet.

Biggest php rival

The biggest rival of php is asp and asp[dot]net. Though supported by microsoft they have multiple disadvantages:

1. They are slower than php.

2. The database used by them is ms-sql which is not free.

3. Not widely used.

So if you want to become a web developer, you should go for php and mysql.

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