.. _glossary:
Glossary
========
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.. glossary::
.htaccess
the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess>
ACL
Access Contol List
Blowfish
a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher)>
Browser
a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web.
.. seealso:: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser>
bzip2
a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2>
CGI
Common Gateway Interface is an important World Wide Web technology that
enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on
the Web server.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI>
Changelog
a log or record of changes made to a project.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog>
Client
a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_(computing)>
column
a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_(database)>
Cookie
a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie>
CSV
Comma- separated values
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values>
DB
look at :term:`database`
database
an organized collection of data.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database>
Engine
look at :term:`storage engines`
extension
a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension>
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there
answers.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ>
Field
one part of divided data/columns.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(computer_science)>
foreign key
a column or group of columns in a database row that point to a key column
or group of columns forming a key of another database row in some
(usually different) table.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_key>
FPDF
the free :term:`PDF` library
.. seealso:: <http://www.fpdf.org/>
GD
Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating images.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library>
GD2
look at :term:`gd`
gzip
gzip is short for GNU zip, a GNU free software file compression program.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip>
host
any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host>
hostname
the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname>
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol is the primary method used to transfer or
convey information on the World Wide Web.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol>
https
a :term:`HTTP`-connection with additional security measures.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https:_URI_scheme>
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IIS
Internet Information Services is a set of Internet-based services for
servers using Microsoft Windows.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services>
Index
a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(database)>
IP
Internet Protocol is a data-oriented protocol used by source and
destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched
internetwork.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol>
IP Address
a unique number that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Address>
IPv6
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest revision of the
Internet Protocol (:term:`IP`), designed to deal with the
long-anticipated problem of its precedessor IPv4 running out of addresses.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6>
ISAPI
Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAPI>
ISP
Internet service provider is a business or organization that offers users
access to the Internet and related services.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP>
ISO
International Standards Organisation
JPEG
a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG>
JPG
look at :term:`jpeg`
Key
look at :term:`index`
LATEX
a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX>
Mac
Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac>
Mac OS X
the operating system which is included with all currently shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>
MCrypt
a cryptographic library.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt>
mcrypt
the MCrypt PHP extension.
.. seealso:: <https://php.net/mcrypt>
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is
an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME>
module
some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module>
mod_proxy_fcgi
an Apache module implmenting a Fast CGI interface; PHP can be run as a CGI module, FastCGI, or
directly as an Apache module.
MySQL
a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS).
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>
mysqli
the improved MySQL client PHP extension.
.. seealso:: <https://php.net/mysqli>
mysql
the MySQL client PHP extension.
.. seealso:: <https://php.net/mysql>
OpenDocument
open standard for office documents.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument>
OS X
look at :term:`Mac OS X`.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X>
PDF
Portable Document Format is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for
representing two dimensional documents in a device independent and
resolution independent format.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>
PEAR
the PHP Extension and Application Repository.
.. seealso:: <https://pear.php.net/>
PCRE
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular
expression functions for PHP
.. seealso:: <https://php.net/pcre>
PHP
short for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open-source, reflective
programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications
and dynamic web content, and more recently, a broader range of software
applications.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP>
port
a connection through which data is sent and received.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(computing)>
RFC
Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda
encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to
Internet technologies.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments>
RFC 1952
GZIP file format specification version 4.3
.. seealso:: :rfc:`1952`
Row (record, tuple)
represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_(database)>
Server
a computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)>
Storage Engines
handlers for different table types
.. seealso:: <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html>
socket
a form of inter-process communication.
.. seealso:: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket>
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure
communication on the Internet.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer>
Stored procedure
a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system
.. seealso:: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_procedure>
SQL
Structured Query Language
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL>
table
a set of data elements (cells) that is organized, defined and stored as
horizontal rows and vertical columns where each item can be uniquely
identified by a label or key or by it?s position in relation to other
items.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(database)>
tar
a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)>
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the
Internet protocol suite.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP>
TCPDF
Rewrite of :term:`UFPDF` with various improvements.
.. seealso:: <https://tcpdf.org/>
trigger
a procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database
.. seealso:: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger>
UFPDF
Unicode/UTF-8 extension for :term:`FPDF`
.. seealso:: <https://acko.net/blog/ufpdf-unicode-utf-8-extension-for-fpdf/>
URL
Uniform Resource Locator is a sequence of characters, conforming to a
standardized format, that is used for referring to resources, such as
documents and images on the Internet, by their location.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL>
Webserver
A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webserver>
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a W3C-recommended general- purpose markup
language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of
describing many different kinds of data.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML>
ZIP
a popular data compression and archival format.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)>
zlib
an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
.. seealso:: <https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib>