The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) was designed as a solution to authoring hypertext documents. It was intended (primarily) for the presentation of static information or at least information that doesn’t change often. It is not a programming language as such and although it can be used to construct forms into which a user can enter data, it cannot easily be used alone to build interactive systems of any useful complexity. In order to produce Web pages whose content is dynamic, some other technique is required. One of the best approaches is PHP.
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Stobart, S. (2002). Introducing PHP. In: Essential PHP fast. Essential Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0209-0_3
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