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important World Wide Web technology that + enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on + the Web server. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI> + + Changelog + a log or record of changes made to a project. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog> + + Client + a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie> + + CSV + Comma- separated values + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values> + + DB + look at :term:`database` + + database + an organized collection of data. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database> + + Engine + look at :term:`storage engines` + + extension + a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension> + + FAQ + Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there + answers. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ> + + Field + one part of divided data/columns. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_key> + + FPDF (FreePDF) + the free PDF library + + .. seealso:: <http://www.fpdf.org/> + + GD + Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library> + + GD2 + look at :term:`gd` + + gzip + gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip> + + host + any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host> + + hostname + the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol> + + https + a :abbr:`HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)`-connection with additional security measures. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https:_URI_scheme> + + IIS + Internet Information Services is a set of Internet-based services for + servers using Microsoft Windows. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services> + + Index + a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address> + + ISAPI + Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS). + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP> + + JPEG + a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG> + + JPG + look at :term:`jpeg` + + Key + look at :term:`index` + + LATEX + a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X> + + MCrypt + a cryptographic library. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt> + + mcrypt + the MCrypt PHP extension. + + .. seealso:: <http://php.net/mcrypt> + + MIME + Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is + an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME> + + module + some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module> + + MySQL + a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS). + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL> + + mysqli + the improved MySQL client PHP extension. + + .. seealso:: <http://php.net/mysqli> + + mysql + the MySQL client PHP extension. + + .. seealso:: <http://php.net/mysql> + + OpenDocument + open standard for office documents. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument> + + OS X + look at :term:`Mac OS X`. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format> + + PEAR + the PHP Extension and Application Repository. + + .. seealso:: <http://pear.php.net/> + + PCRE + Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular + expression functions for PHP + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP> + + port + a connection through which data is sent and received. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments> + + RFC 1952 + GZIP file format specification version 4.3 + + .. seealso:: :rfc:`1952` + + Row (record, tuple) + represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_(database)> + + Server + a computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)> + + Storage Engines + handlers for different table types + + .. seealso:: <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html> + + SOAP + Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for exchanging + structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer + networks. + + .. seealso:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP> + + socket + a form of inter-process communication. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket#Computer_sockets> + + SSL + Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure + communication on the Internet. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer> + + Stored procedure + a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system + + .. seealso:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_procedure> + + SQL + Structured Query Language + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(database)> + + tar + a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)> + + TCP + Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the + Internet protocol suite. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP> + + TCPDF + Rewrite of :term:`UFPDF` with various improvements. + + .. seealso:: <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 + + .. seealso:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger> + + UFPDF + Unicode/UTF-8 extension for :term:`FPDF` + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL> + + Webserver + A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages. + + .. seealso:: <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. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML> + + ZIP + a popular data compression and archival format. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)> + + zlib + an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. + + .. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib> + + |