Section 9.1. What Does It Mean to Be Dynamic?


9.1. What Does It Mean to Be Dynamic?

Before Perl and PHP became widespread on the web site scene, the vast majority of sites were classed as "static"they would only change when the original author(s) uploaded new content to them. This was fine for the time, because the Internet's primary aim was for many years to be a tool to allow universities and research institutes to share information and learning.

When the Web first started to be used by the masses in the mid-90s, the number of uses it could be put to grew very quickly, and people wanted to do everything onlinereserving tickets for a gig, shopping, and downloading music. In order to be able to properly communicate with users, dynamic sites became popular because they could get feedback from users, allow users to influence content on sites by adding their own information and views, and form communities of people who all share the same goal.



PHP in a Nutshell
Ubuntu Unleashed
ISBN: 596100671
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 249

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