Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/11/06 19:01

Caec wrote:
> I recently hired a company to design a website for me. They said they
> would use PHP and MySQL. Is this right? What about HTML? Is this not
> necessary for websites? Will the browser be able to find the site
> without HTML?

The PHP is used to generate HTML from the data stored in the MySQL database.

Of course you can send plain text, the browser will be able to display it, but
it won't look nice, this isn't what the company will do (at least I believe
they won't, if they would then they would rip you off), they just don't
mention the HTML as it's a such obvious part of the project and it could even
be that they use XHTML instead.

If you are smart, you will specify for the company that the pages has to work
in Gecko based browsers, Opera and MSIE, this way you will have a nice looking
and working site for 99.5% of all people on the net, if you want to have a
more or less 100% then the pages should work in a such simple browser as links.



//Aho

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