rebeca L asked:
Hi, I have a project to submit to my supervisor. It’s a TOR (Term of Reference), I am planning to do a discussion forum and I must explain what will be the resources used. I choose that I will use PHP and mySQL but I don’t know how to explain why? what is the “play” of php and mysql in a discussion forum. Thank you for helping me very quickly, it’s quite an emergency!!!
Hi, I have a project to submit to my supervisor. It’s a TOR (Term of Reference), I am planning to do a discussion forum and I must explain what will be the resources used. I choose that I will use PHP and mySQL but I don’t know how to explain why? what is the “play” of php and mysql in a discussion forum. Thank you for helping me very quickly, it’s quite an emergency!!!
2 Comments to 'why do we use PHP and mySQL for doing a discussion forum?'
February 3, 2009
Well firstly, you have chosen PHP and MySQL - so why DID you choose them? Having experience with them or just being more confident is a valid reason for your choice.
A php page is a script that is run on the web server and generates the HTML that the user sees. This enables the webpage to interact with any other processes or services as a static page cannot.
MySQL is a type of database, which is required to hold all the information (user details, posts etc) for the forum. By itself this would be useless to your users as they would have no means of interacting with the data help.
By combining the two you can securely hold the forum data, and provided server generated pages that interact with this data to allow users to interact with a forum as you know it.
February 6, 2009
Not only for a discussion forum, but for every project there are several factors that will have to take under consideration in order to choose the platfroms that we will use.
Ask you self the following questions:
1. What are your skills in PHP & My SQL?
2. Will you be able to make customizations to the discussion board?
3. What is the operating system of your web server?
4. Are you going to use an open source discussion board solution?
The answers to the above question can give you some guidance. Also have a look on wikipedia about the bemefits of php and my sql and try to compare them with their competition (e.g. microsoft with asp.net and ms sql server)
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