1.3 Web Sites Built on PHP and PostgreSQL


All around the globe people are using PHP and PostgreSQL. To encourage you to use the two products as a team, we will go on a quick tour to visit some Web sites around the globe running PHP and PostgreSQL. You will see what can be done and you will learn that even high-performance sites can be implemented safely.

Let's start our tour around the world.

Ecomtel offers online billing tools. Billing software is extremely security- and performance-critical, so it is necessary to use well-tested and fast applications such as PHP and PostgreSQL. High quality, high availability, and flexibility are the keywords, and that is exactly what PHP and PostgreSQL offer. The Web site of Ecomtel can be found at http://www.ecomtel.com.au/. Figure 1.2 gives you a look at the Web site of the company.

Figure 1.2. Ecomtel's Web site.

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You can even see the logos "powered by PHP" and "powered by PostgreSQL" at the bottom of the Web site.

With PHP and PostgreSQL it is not only possible to run highly sophisticated applications; it is also possible to build simple, content-driven Web pages. One example of that can be found on the other side of the globe. A small town in the Czech Republic relies on PHP and PostgreSQL as you can see at http://www.karlovyvary.cz, which is shown in Figure 1.3.

Figure 1.3. PostgreSQL and the Czech Republic.

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Let's continue our world tour and make a stop at the University of Vienna. There we can find people building geographical databases and generating maps with the help of PHP and PostgreSQL. Because of PostgreSQL's wonderful interface for working with geometric data types, the database is a wonderful playground for scientists as well as for students.

At http://www.gis.univie.ac.at/karto/ you can find the Web site of the institute running PHP and PostgreSQL.

Figure 1.4. Geographic applications with PHP and PostgreSQL.

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Let's finish our world tour in one of the homelands of PostgreSQL and visit one of the most popular and most useful PostgreSQL Web sites. http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ is a Web site for users of PostgreSQL. The site itself is built on PHP and contains a lot of useful information about PostgreSQL and software related to the database.

The site is maintained by Justin Clift and can be seen in Figure 1.5.

Figure 1.5. Technical documentation.

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PHP and PostgreSQL are used by countless Web programmers and database administrators all around the globe. They are a playground for hackers as well as for ordinary programmers, and both products offer what you have been looking for. PostgreSQL is one of the most stable databases, and PHP can easily be used in combination with PostgreSQL. PHP and PostgreSQL are a perfect tool for beginners as well as for pros, and you will soon see why.



PHP and PostgreSQL. Advanced Web Programming2002
PHP and PostgreSQL. Advanced Web Programming2002
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Year: 2004
Pages: 201

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