LAMP – Brightest light for Web Development
When Michael Kunze claimed in a German computing magazine to have bundled popular technologies into a single stacked software that will encourage more web amateur enthusiasts enter the web development arena, he was not wrong. He called his "invention" LAMP, an acronym for Linux, Apache HTTP server, MySQL, and PHP. He wired all these popular open source components to build a free web development framework.
He aimed at these popular tools for reasons justified – Apache HTTP server that runs almost two-thirds of the entire Internet, revolutionary database server MySQL and database scripting language PHP to produce dynamic web pages, and Linux, clearly for its open sourced stability. Linux kernel is the most important component of the whole LAMP software bundle. These tools provide flexibility to web developers to bring out the best solution in limited resources without the fear of compromising with quality. LAMP gives freedom to experts as well as freelancing amateurs to build modern day Internet web pages.
Why do people choose LAMP in the first place? Its inexpensiveness is the very answer. LAMP is an open source software bundle and hence easily affordable. It is constantly being updated and upgraded by its users and the latest bug-free version is always available for free download. Though its installation needs some expert hands (as its tools have to be manually configured during installation), once installed the framework runs smoothly eve n on low-configuration machines. LAMP is completely viable as it self-improves unremittingly and always stands up to its rising expectations. Moreover, it is easily adaptable. Anyone and everyone comfortable in PHP-MySQL programming can jump in right away into LAMP Development. With its impressive performance and security, a programmer has all what he needs to build reliable web applications. A programmer can choose not to release his developed code as open source albeit the fact that all the LAMP components are open source; if the developed software contains modifications to LAMP components it has to be released under the GPL license.
LAMP framework is as straightforward as its usage is. Linux being the prominent player of the bundled lot forwards all HTTP connections to the Apache server. Here all of the static page HTML code content is served directly from the Linux kernel. The dynamic content is forwarded to the PHP by the Apache server to run the PHP code and design the page intelligence. MySQL database is queried through PHP. phpMyAdmin handles the overall administration while every major enterprise management system can manage Apache and Linux.
LAMP has been proven to be the best choice for web application development. After a slow start where it was primarily used by only the large, massively scalable websites such as Amazon, Google, Yahoo and Friendster, now, particularly for wiki and CMS solutions, LAMP is seeing an increasing number of more enterprise customers, viz. Lufthansa, Disney, and Boeing. Developers all across the world are harnessing unlimited powerful web applications using LAMP. Clearly, people are opting for the robust and secure Linux kernel that provides a strong foundation of the LAMP software stack. PHP and MySQL have been on top of the web development ladder since their maturation, and as for Apache, it is just the pinnacle of web servers. Seeing this gaining popularity it can be proposed that only more and more enthusiasts will come to the LAMP developing party.
He aimed at these popular tools for reasons justified – Apache HTTP server that runs almost two-thirds of the entire Internet, revolutionary database server MySQL and database scripting language PHP to produce dynamic web pages, and Linux, clearly for its open sourced stability. Linux kernel is the most important component of the whole LAMP software bundle. These tools provide flexibility to web developers to bring out the best solution in limited resources without the fear of compromising with quality. LAMP gives freedom to experts as well as freelancing amateurs to build modern day Internet web pages.
Why do people choose LAMP in the first place? Its inexpensiveness is the very answer. LAMP is an open source software bundle and hence easily affordable. It is constantly being updated and upgraded by its users and the latest bug-free version is always available for free download. Though its installation needs some expert hands (as its tools have to be manually configured during installation), once installed the framework runs smoothly eve n on low-configuration machines. LAMP is completely viable as it self-improves unremittingly and always stands up to its rising expectations. Moreover, it is easily adaptable. Anyone and everyone comfortable in PHP-MySQL programming can jump in right away into LAMP Development. With its impressive performance and security, a programmer has all what he needs to build reliable web applications. A programmer can choose not to release his developed code as open source albeit the fact that all the LAMP components are open source; if the developed software contains modifications to LAMP components it has to be released under the GPL license.
LAMP framework is as straightforward as its usage is. Linux being the prominent player of the bundled lot forwards all HTTP connections to the Apache server. Here all of the static page HTML code content is served directly from the Linux kernel. The dynamic content is forwarded to the PHP by the Apache server to run the PHP code and design the page intelligence. MySQL database is queried through PHP. phpMyAdmin handles the overall administration while every major enterprise management system can manage Apache and Linux.
LAMP has been proven to be the best choice for web application development. After a slow start where it was primarily used by only the large, massively scalable websites such as Amazon, Google, Yahoo and Friendster, now, particularly for wiki and CMS solutions, LAMP is seeing an increasing number of more enterprise customers, viz. Lufthansa, Disney, and Boeing. Developers all across the world are harnessing unlimited powerful web applications using LAMP. Clearly, people are opting for the robust and secure Linux kernel that provides a strong foundation of the LAMP software stack. PHP and MySQL have been on top of the web development ladder since their maturation, and as for Apache, it is just the pinnacle of web servers. Seeing this gaining popularity it can be proposed that only more and more enthusiasts will come to the LAMP developing party.
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