Daffodil DB: Web Database
Parveen Aggarwal
What is a Web Database?
A web database is a database for the internet. You can get
access to your data via the internet from anywhere in the
world. Or, you can create a database driven website by using
such databases. A web database stores large amount of
information in an organized format that is easily accessible
from scripting languages (like PHP).
In web databases, modifications, like the ones constantly used
by e-commerce sites, for example, can be performed without any
hassles .That makes the dense editing of the html code
obsolete. Repeated types of data, like contact information, can
be generated automatically in your website through a web
database.
Daffodil DB: A web database
Daffodil DB is a J2EE-certified, SQL-99 and JDBC standards
compliant Java RDBMS. It is the first java database which is
compatible with PHP. With the release of PHP extension module,
Daffodil DB has joined the select list of Java enabled web
databases.
Daffodil DB is an ideal for anyone who is looking for a web
database. It can be embedded within any application and
delivers high performance with minimum system resource usage -
thereby striking the right balance between size, features and
performance. At less than 3 MB, Daffodil DB is a small/compact
database.
Daffodil DB can run on virtually any platform as it supports
all platforms for which a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is
available. These include Windows, Linux, Solaris and UNIX. With
the help of Daffodil DB, developers can build applications for
any platform and these can be compiled and delivered on all
other major platforms.
PHP
PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server-side
scripting language that is particularly suited for web
development and can be used to generate dynamic web content.
PHP scripts are embedded within web pages along with HTML,
similar to other web scripting languages such as Microsoft's
ASP or Sun Microsystems’s JSP. Like ASP and JSP, PHP runs on
the web server when a page is requested via HTTP, rather than
on the Web browser or other client.
PHP lets you insert instructions into your Web pages that your
Web server software (be it Apache, Personal Web Server, or
whatever) will execute before sending those pages to a browser
that requests them.
PHP is easy to use for web development because it has been
designed from the onset for the web environment. PHP has many
built-in functions that make web programming simpler, so that
programmers can focus on the logic of programming without
wasting precious development time.
PHP as a language has its own way of doing things, and at the
same time, has borrowed features from other languages. But for
many people, the main reason for learning a scripting language
like PHP is because of the interaction with databases it can
offer. Moreover, PHP is cross platform i.e. it allows you to
use/develop your solution on multiple OSs.
PHP is one of the fastest growing server side scripting
languages around and you need to add it to your current arsenal
of Perl, ASP, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, Java...
PHP and Daffodil DB: Together…?
Daffodil has come up with a PHP extension module that makes
Daffodil DB/One$DB compatible with PHP. It is a database
extension module driver that is required to work with Daffodil
DB in PHP. This extension module uses the capabilities of a
Java database and extends it to your web infrastructure.
By using this extensive module, PHP developers can create
sophisticated data-driven web applications, having Daffodil DB
as a web database, in a fraction of the time and with reduced
cost.
PHP extension for Daffodil DB provides a simple, yet effective
means for connecting to Daffodil DB from within PHP. The JVM is
created using JNI invocation interface and everything runs
in-process.
This PHP Extension module will boost open Source activities
around Daffodil DB. Moreover, open Source stack -Linux, Apache,
One$DB, and PHP; all being open source products, will give an
ultimate combination to web development community.
PHP is platform independent, Daffodil DB is platform
independent. PHP is free; so as Daffodil DB (open source
version).PHP is open source; Daffodil DB has an open source
version. So What about using the powers of two most promising
technologies, PHP and Daffodil DB, together…?
The capabilities of Daffodil DB & PHP can make up what must be
the best blend for data-driven Web sites on the globe. Users
can use PHP and the Daffodil DB database to access/store
information on the web and include it into their website. By
using PHP as a front-end and Daffodil DB as a back-end web
database, users can benefit from huge savings on the licensing
costs of commercial alternatives.
Here are some practical examples where PHP and Daffodil DB,
used together, can do wonders
* Designing a database driven website
* Add, edit & delete Web site content without using HTML
* Banner Rotation
* Forums
Apart from all above mentioned applications, there are some
more areas where users can use Daffodil DB-PHP 'dynamic-duo'.
* Optimize the loading time of the website
* Build an ecommerce shopping cart
* Automatically send email on triggered events
* Handle file uploads using HTML forms
* Build a Web-based file repository or photo gallery
* Utilize sessions and cookies to track site visitors
To know more about PHP visit http://www.php.net
For more information about Daffodil DB log on to
http://www.daffodildb.com
Please log on to http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pecl/daffodildb for
more information on PHP and Daffodil DB.
Read more: http://www.daffodildb.com/web-database.html
About The Author: This article has been contributed by (Mr.)
Parveen Aggarwal, Technical Consultant to DSL India
http://www.daffodildb.com/ With
more than 6 years of
industry experience in Java and allied technologies, he has an
in-depth understanding of J2EE, J2ME and database management
systems. Parveen is currently working on the concept of
data-archiving in embedded databases.
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