Posted by Sean on 10/28/22 11:33

I assume you mean by datafile a database?

The most common database used with php is mysql. Linux, Apache, MySQL,
PHP are used so routinely together that the group of technologies sis
simply called LAMP. (might include perl or python as well).

However php 5 does come with a database bundled with it called sqlite.
Docs on this are http://php.net/sqlite. It supports view and
transactions and is actually quite handy.

PHP will work on apache with mod_php and IIS. Most prefer to use php
with apache; I personally would never use php with IIS for a production
environment, mainly because IIS is complete crap and extensive crap at
that. But I know people who have php on IIS and have no problems with
it.

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