Provisioning PHP

In this lab we will provision PHP on the web server, install PHP on the web server, and demonstrate its' role in authenticating users using a HTML form and PHP script to authenticate.  

outcomes:

In this lab, you will learn to: 

  1. Provide PHP on the web server.
  2. Install PHP on the web server.
  3. Authenticate users using an HTML form and a PHP script.

Videos:

Before you start this lab, review these videos.

Installation of PHP5

Verifying the PHP Installation

PHP/MySQL Authentication

Overview

The development of this document is funded by the Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) Grant No. NSF-0703097 thru Bunker Hill Community College.

Personalized Homepages (PHP), or more recently known as PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, was designed to make static webpages dynamic. In this lab, we are going to install PHP and use a couple PHP scripts, along with a few modifications to our website that will enable UrBank clients to authenticate through the HTML form within our custom homepage.

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Provisioning PHP

 

Key terms and descriptions

PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed to create dynamic web sites.
Server-side scripting
Server-side scripting is a programming technique that allows web pages to respond to specific events.
phpMyAdmin
An administrative tool to manage MySQL databases in PHP