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- .htaccess
- the default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file. - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- bzip2
- a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward. - See also 
- 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 
- Changelog
- a log or record of changes made to a project. - See also 
- 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. 
- 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 
- CSV
- Comma- separated values 
- DB
- look at database
- database
- an organized collection of data. - See also 
- Engine
- look at storage engines
- extension
- a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality. - See also 
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there answers. - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- FPDF
- the free PDF library - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- host
- any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname. - See also 
- hostname
- the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network. - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- 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 
- ISAPI
- Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS). - See also 
- ISP
- Internet service provider is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. - See also 
- ISO
- International Standards Organisation
- JPEG
- a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images. - See also 
- JPG
- look at jpeg
- Key
- look at index
- LATEX
- a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program. - See also 
- Mac
- Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. - . seealso:: <https://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 
- MCrypt
- a cryptographic library. - See also 
- mcrypt
- the MCrypt PHP extension. - See also 
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail. - See also 
- module
- some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver. - See also 
- 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). - See also 
- mysqli
- the improved MySQL client PHP extension. - See also 
- mysql
- the MySQL client PHP extension. - See also 
- OpenDocument
- open standard for office documents. - See also 
- OS X
- look at Mac OS X. - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- PCRE
- Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular expression functions for PHP - See also 
- 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 
- 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 - See also 
- 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 - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- TCPDF
- Rewrite of UFPDF with various improvements. - See also 
- 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. - See also 
- Webserver
- A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages. - See also 
- 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 
- ZIP
- a popular data compression and archival format. 
- zlib
- an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. - See also