ISSN XXXX XXXX © 2017 IJESC Research Article Volume 7 Issue No.9 Using PHP and MySQL for SMTP Configuration and Database Creation Madhurai Das Student Department of Computer Science and Engineering SRM University, Ramapuram, Tamil Nadu, India Abstract: This paper has been presented to portray a basic idea of PHP using MySQL Database Connectivity. This will tell about how a database can be easily created using MySQL. Moreover, the database can be connected to PHP. It provides a variety of features to the users like they can use it to send an email by clearly specifying the sender and the receiver address and most importantly after fully completing the SMTP configuration. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is easy to configure SMTP with Gmail for its simple user interface or GUI. This helps the users to save time by reducing the manpower needed to type each and every mail individually. Now the database created helps us to remove the files, registers, notebooks or any sort of physical storage from the picture. Thus, in this way even if there is loss of files and notebooks, it will not affect the normal working process of the firm, company or the organization. Keywords: Database, PHP, MySQL, Server, SMTP 1. INTRODUCTION Preprocessor‖.2 their efforts resulted in PHP 3.0 and were published in June of 1998. This collaboration gave PHP strong PHP is an important player in the software development extensibility features that made it very easy to write additions market. Its popularity with both private software developers and extensions for the language. At this point, initial buds of and corporate IT departments is having a growing impact on object orientation were integrated in the language’s syntax. the market for commercial software as well. While PHP is The dramatic growth of the WWW in the late 90s, created an heavily used in the development of web based software, it is enormous demand for scripting languages for dynamic website not limited to this field. It is also used quite frequently to tie development. With the release of PHP 3, the Internet together different existing applications or application modules. community found a tool that was easier to learn and handle Such is the case with Yahoo that uses PHP to "glue" together than Perl (the defacto standard at the time) and PHP rapidly code written in different languages. The purpose of this paper became the language of choice for dynamic content. By the is to summarize the history of PHP and offer an overview of its end of 1998, the install base for PHP reached several hundred current status and market. We will then highlight the thousand websites. During the next two years, ZeevSuraski and advantages of adopting PHP at the Enterprise level and how Andi Gutmans, developed PHP 4. When it was published in programmers and IT managers can benefit. Finally, we will May 2000, the main new features included simple object give an outlook on the future development of PHP. This paper orientation and session handling capabilities. To increase the presents a performance study of the ISP (Internet Service performance and stability of PHP execution on the server, the Provider) mail servers. By using the SPEC-mail2001 Zend Engine 1 was introduced as the heart of PHP installation. benchmark to test a commercial mail service– MDaemon In May 2000, the number of domains that use PHP reached 2 5.0.1, we explore the both network and I/O performance of million3. mail servers with user population’s between 200 to 10,000. File system traces are also collected for analysis. The PHP community, with the strong participation of ZeevSuraski and Andi Gutmans spent the next four years 2. HISTORY OF PHP creating PHP 5. This long development cycle was mainly due to a very extensive testing phase. When PHP 5 was finally The history of PHP is a long never ending story. The released in the summer of 2004, together with the Zend Engine development of PHP started in 1995: Rasmus Lerdorf created a 2 it introduced major enhancements: such as full support for personal collection of Perl1 scripts and transferred them into a object orientation, XML4 integration, and the SOAP5 protocol. package written in C. This package was called Personal Home By the summer of 2004, PHP had grown to an install base of Page tools or PHP for short. On June 8th, 1995 this package more than 16 million domains. was published as PHP/FI, where FI stood for Form Interpreter. PHP/FI showed great similarities to Perl, while attempting to The transition from PHP 4 usage to PHP 5 was slow in the be much simpler to use. More than two years later, Rasmus beginning, however this changed with the release of PHP 5.1 Lerdorf published a more advanced version of the increasingly in late 2005. In addition to smaller enhancements, PHP 5.1 popular software called PHP 2.0 (or PHP/FI 2). In 1997, brought a database abstraction layer called PDO6. PDO makes ZeevSuraski and Andi Gutmans began a complete re-write of it much easier to use PHP with various databases from PHP to make the language more powerful for eCommerce different vendors. By the end of 2005, PHP adoption soared to applications. They cooperated with Rasmus Lerdorf and more than 23 million domains. changed the meaning of PHP to ―PHP: Hypertext International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing, September 2017 15042 http://ijesc.org/ PHP – A Success Story ZEND ENGINE One of the major advantages PHP offers is platform The PHP community, with the strong participation of independence. Currently, the list of supported operating ZeevSuraski and Andi Gutmans spent the next four years systems includes Linux (for various CPU architectures), creating PHP 5. This long development cycle was mainly due Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Sun's Solaris (SPARC and to a very extensive testing phase. When PHP 5 was finally Intel), IBM AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Novell Netware, SGI released in the summer of 2004, together with the Zend Engine IRIX, IBM AS/400, OS/2 and RISC OS. Since the Zend 2 it introduced major enhancements: such as full support for Engine is open source, it is straightfoward to compile it for object orientation, XML4 integration, and the SOAP5 protocol. additional operating systems. It is no surprise that there are By the summer of 2004, PHP had grown to an install base of adaptations for all common UNIX versions, as well as for more than 16 million domains. exotic environments like Amiga or BeOS. The transition from PHP 4 usage to PHP 5 was slow in the Platform independence has a second facet: beginning, however this changed with the release of PHP 5.1 in late 2005. In addition to smaller enhancements, PHP 5.1 Most PHP applications can therefore be used on every brought a database abstraction layer called PDO6. PDO makes computer or internet capable device. Another benefit of PHP is it much easier to use PHP with various databases from flexibility. Since no compilation is needed, it is easy to make different vendors. By the end of 2005, PHP adoption soared to changes or bug fixes within minutes and to deploy new more than 23 million domains. versions of the program frequently. Additionally, it is easy to prototype new applications and concepts; typically compared 3. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY to C or Java, PHP application development takes 50% of the time. Whilst PHP5 includes SQLite database as a standard PHP is at the forefront of Web 2.0 and Service Oriented install for rapid prototyping, PHP applications usually store Architectures enabler technologies along with other open their data in external databases, such as MySQL, Oracle or source projects MySQL, Apache or JBoss. With ten years of IBM DB2. PHP5 incorporates a database abstraction layer development behind it, PHP is a relatively young programming "PDO" for developing applications that support multiple language. databases. As PDO currently supports most of the commercial databases on the market and is part of an open source project, Nevertheless, millions of developers world-wide use PHP to other drivers can be easily added as new technologies emerge. develop systems that power over 20 million websites. PHP is endorsed not only by its large open source community, but also Since PHP is an open source language, all information on how by leading players and analysts in the IT market such as IBM, the language works, its syntax and the inner functions of the Oracle and Microsoft. PHP is ideal for Enterprise applications Zend Engine are publicly available and can be used free of as it is easy to learn yet robust and flexible enough to power charge under the PHP license. This is a BSD-style license, business critical applications. there are no licensing fees related to using PHP or the Zend Engine in applications whether commercial or otherwise and 4. PHP TODAY there are no limitations on commercial use as there are with other open source projects released under the GPL license. Today, PHP is a full featured comprehensive programming language with solid object orientation support. While it was 4. PEOPLE BEHIND PHP called a scripting language in the past, today it is more referred to as a dynamic programming language. Unlike traditional The development of PHP is driven by the PHP Group, a programming languages such as C/C++, PHP does not have to community of developers that contribute to the various parts be compiled. and modules of PHP. The PHP Group is also the official licenser of PHP. It is hard to give an exact number of how Instead the source code is interpreted at runtime The Zend many people work on PHP, since literally anyone can Engine acts as a runtime interpreter that compiles the code in contribute to the project.