Chapter 15. Using PostgreSQL with PHP

PHP is a general-purpose programming language. The most common use of PHP is for building dynamic web pages. A dynamic web page is a document that is regenerated each time it is displayed. For example, each time you point your web browser to cnn.com, you see the latest news. PHP is useful for building dynamic web pages because you can embed PHP programs within HTML documents. In fact, you can produce HTML documents from a PHP script.