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- .htaccess
the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.
- ACL
Access Contol List
- Blowfish
a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.
- Browser
a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web.
- bzip2
a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.
- CGI
Common Gateway Interface is an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on the Web server.
- Changelog
a log or record of changes made to a project.
- Client
a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network.
- column
a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.
- Cookie
a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.
- CSV
Comma- separated values
- DB
look at
database- database
an organized collection of data.
- Engine
look at
storage engines- extension
a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.
- FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there answers.
- Field
one part of divided data/columns.
- foreign key
a column or group of columns in a database row that point to a key column or group of columns forming a key of another database row in some (usually different) table.
- FPDF
the free
PDFlibrary- GD
Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images.
- GD2
look at
gd- gzip
gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program.
- host
any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.
- hostname
the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.
- HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol is the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web.
- https
a
HTTP-connection with additional security measures.- IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
- IIS
Internet Information Services is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.
- Index
a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.
- IP
Internet Protocol is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.
- IP Address
a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.
- IPv6
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (
IP), designed to deal with the long-anticipated problem of its precedessor IPv4 running out of addresses.- ISAPI
Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).
- ISP
Internet service provider is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.
- ISO
International Standards Organisation
- JPEG
a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images.
- JPG
look at
jpeg- Key
look at
index- LATEX
a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program.
- Mac
Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer.
- Mac OS X
the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.
- MCrypt
a cryptographic library.
- mcrypt
the MCrypt PHP extension.
- MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.
- module
some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.
- mod_proxy_fcgi
an Apache module implmenting a Fast CGI interface; PHP can be run as a CGI module, FastCGI, or directly as an Apache module.
- MySQL
a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS).
- mysqli
the improved MySQL client PHP extension.
- mysql
the MySQL client PHP extension.
- OpenDocument
open standard for office documents.
- OS X
look at
Mac OS X.Portable Document Format is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent format.
- PEAR
the PHP Extension and Application Repository.
- PCRE
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP
- PHP
short for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software applications.
- port
a connection through which data is sent and received.
- RFC
Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies.
- RFC 1952
GZIP file format specification version 4.3
1952- Row (record, tuple)
represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.
- Server
a computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network.
- Storage Engines
handlers for different table types
- socket
a form of inter-process communication.
- SSL
Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.
- Stored procedure
a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system
- SQL
Structured Query Language
- table
a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other items.
- tar
a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.
- TCP
Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.
- TCPDF
Rewrite of
UFPDFwith various improvements.- trigger
a procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database
- UFPDF
Unicode/UTF-8 extension for
FPDF- URL
Uniform Resource Locator is a sequence of characters, conforming to a standardized format, that is used for referring to resources, such as documents and images on the Internet, by their location.
- Webserver
A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages.
- XML
Extensible Markup Language is a W3C-recommended general- purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data.
- ZIP
a popular data compression and archival format.
- zlib
an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.