Proposed Solutions to the questions in the book PHP and MySQL by Example Ellie Quigley with Marko Gargenta.
Chapter 1
- What is the difference between a static and dynamic Web site?
- What is the meaning of open source software?
- From the keyword static, which does mean something of unchanging nature, I would define a static webpage
as one with content which does not change and which lacks any real-time components.
On the other hand, dynamic web sites have frequently changing content which possibly gets renewed each time the site is reloaded.
The text book tries to outline some components of a dynamic web site such as the combination of a database, which will store the site's information together with a scripting language that will be able to recover information from the database.
In a nutshell, what will differentiate both will be the presence of interactivity, short response time and rapid results (which are usually present in dynamic web sites).
- It simply is software whose source code people are allowed to use, modify and adapt to their personal uses and share freely. This in most cases leads to rapid Identification and correction of bugs/errors and also rapid improvements in the software quality. Please do note that there is quite some debating on the differences between open source software and free software. For example:
From LINFO : OPEN SOURCE DEFINITION ,you will get something like : " whereas free software is always also open source, open source software does not necessarily have to be free software."
While from SHOCM : Differences between Free Software and Open Source Software , you will quite an objective view on the difference between both terms with great focus on the conditions each one is expected to satisfy
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