BANGALORE, INDIA: The most popular platform for developing Web database applications is the open source trio of PHP, MySQL, and the Apache Web server. According to SecuritySpace and Netcraft, the Apache Web server is used at about 60 percent of Web sites; almost half of these servers have support for the PHP scripting language.

PHP's popularity stems from its power and flexibility: it is easy to include PHP scripts in HTML documents; it has a powerful performance-oriented library for accessing MySQL; and it shares syntax with other popular programming languages.

As a backend database management system, MySQL is the perfect partner for PHP. It has a well-deserved reputation for speed in the Web environment, where the commonest class of queries are simple SELECT queries that read from a database.

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