The LAMP Stack (Cont.)

The LAMP stack includes four basic component technologies (cont.):
Scripting Languages
The scripting language could be any of Perl, PHP, and Python.

  • Perl, which is an interpreted, general purpose language, often used for scanning text and printing formatted reports

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    A sample Perl script is given next: 

      #!/usr/bin/perl
        print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
  print "<h3>Hello, World!</h3>";

  • PHP, which is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language that lets you create dynamic web pages

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    A sample PHP script is given next: 

      <html><h3>
          <?php print "Hello, World!"; ?>
  </h3></html>

  • Python, which is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development

     undcemcs01>
    A sample Python script is given next: 

      #!/usr/bin/python
        print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
  print "<h3>Hello, World!</h3>"