Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module W604. This topic is presented on public courses Technology Background for PHP, Getting Public Sector Data on Line

Just as a browser uses your web server to process information, so your web server can access other services to complete its task. It could be looking up data on a database, contacting a credit card company to get payment authorisation, or grabbing the local weather for your client's home town.

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4178	Where are you? How to write a geosensitive application Where are you? A question a web server will want to ask of a browser or app client, especially on mobile devices. And modern browsers, through Javascript, can send that vital information to the server. It's really useful in a wide variety of geographic data feeds - I've been working on a prototype listed ...	2013-09-21
2355	See this page in French Would you like to read this page in French? If so you can do so here ... through Google's "Translate" service ... and this is just an example - I can write other links for other languages, or you can move on from French to another language once you've gone to Google. The extra tag in my page is: <a ...	2009-08-13
468	Stand alone PHP programs It always seems a shame when people develop a lot of code in PHP then want to use it standalone ... so they rewrite it in some other language or wrap it in a web page. PHP is an excellent stand alone language; it wasn't designed for that use, but it does a mighty fine job if you've already got files ...	2006-06-05