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# Glossary

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.htaccess

  the default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess>

ACL
  Access Contol List
Blowfish

  a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher)>

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.

  See also

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser>

bzip2

  a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI>

Changelog

  a log or record of changes made to a project.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog>

Client

  a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_(computing)>

column

  a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_(database)>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie>

CSV

  Comma- separated values

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values>

DB
  look at database
database

  an organized collection of data.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database>

Engine
  look at storage engines
extension

  a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension>

FAQ

  Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there answers.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ>

Field

  one part of divided data/columns.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(computer_science)>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_key>

FPDF

  the free PDF library

  See also

  <http://www.fpdf.org/>

GD

  Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library>

GD2
  look at gd
gzip

  gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip>

host

  any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host>

hostname

  the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname>

HTTP

  HyperText Transfer Protocol is the primary method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol>

https

  a HTTP-connection with additional security measures.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https:_URI_scheme>

IEC
  International Electrotechnical Commission
IIS

  Internet Information Services is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services>

Index

  a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(database)>

IP

  Internet Protocol is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6>

ISAPI

  Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAPI>

ISP

  Internet service provider is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP>

ISO
  International Standards Organisation
JPEG

  a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG>

JPG
  look at jpeg
Key
  look at index
LATEX

  a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX>

Mac

  Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer.

  . seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac>

Mac OS X

  the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>

MCrypt

  a cryptographic library.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt>

mcrypt

  the MCrypt PHP extension.

  See also

  <http://php.net/mcrypt>

MIME

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME>

module

  some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module>

MySQL

  a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS).

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>

mysqli

  the improved MySQL client PHP extension.

  See also

  <http://php.net/mysqli>

mysql

  the MySQL client PHP extension.

  See also

  <http://php.net/mysql>

OpenDocument

  open standard for office documents.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument>

OS X

  look at Mac OS X.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X>

PDF

  Portable Document Format is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing two dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent format.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>

PEAR

  the PHP Extension and Application Repository.

  See also

  <http://pear.php.net/>

PCRE

  Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP

  See also

  <http://php.net/pcre>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP>

port

  a connection through which data is sent and received.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(computing)>

RFC

  Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments>

RFC 1952

  GZIP file format specification version 4.3

  See also

  RFC 1952

Row (record, tuple)

  represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_(database)>

Server

  a computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)>

Storage Engines

  handlers for different table types

  See also

  <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html>

socket

  a form of inter-process communication.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket#Computer_sockets>

SSL

  Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication on the Internet.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer>

Stored procedure

  a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system

  See also

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_procedure>

SQL

  Structured Query Language

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(database)>

tar

  a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)>

TCP

  Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP>

TCPDF

  Rewrite of UFPDF with various improvements.

  See also

  <http://www.tcpdf.org/>

trigger

  a procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database

  See also

  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger>

UFPDF

  Unicode/UTF-8 extension for FPDF

  See also

  <http://www.acko.net/node/56>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL>

Webserver

  A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webserver>

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.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML>

ZIP

  a popular data compression and archival format.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)>

zlib

  an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

  See also

  <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib>

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