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Ok, ok, ok – let’s divert our attention away from WordPress for a blog or two. WordPress is an amazing tool to let you create highly dynamic and interesting websites, but underneath the glitz you have PHP doing all the hard work. In the world, a high proportion of PHP websites are operating on a platform know as the LAMP stack. No, no – this is not the illuminated torch sitting in the corner of your basement. The LAMP stack represents the combination of four independent pieces of software, namely:
Linux Operating System
Apache Web Server
MySQL Relational Database
PHP
When running together, this platform allows high performance applications such as WordPress to run without any difficulties. The platform is scalable and flexible and many have tweaked it to meet their needs. The most notable of these variations is the replacement of Linux by Windows. Today, most web developers have to write an application that supports both of these platforms. To accomplish this, software developers will develop their application using the WAMP platform, but when deploying into production, will deploy using the LAMP platform. Quality assurance testing on both environments significantly reduces the annoyances found when only developing on one platform.
If you have any blog suggestions or would like me to answer some of your PHP questions, please comment on this blog and let me know.
Regards,
Mark
p.s. Other variants of the above platform are possible i.e. some prefer IIS over Apache. Unfortunately, you don’t see many people boldly stating that they are WIMP developers.
