.. _glossary:

Glossary
========

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

.. glossary::

.htaccess
the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htaccess>

ACL
Access Contol List

Blowfish
a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser>

bzip2
a free software/open source data compression algorithm and program developed by Julian Seward.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI>

Changelog
a log or record of changes made to a project.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog>

Client
a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie>

CSV
Comma- separated values

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values>

DB
look at :term:`database`

database
an organized collection of data.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database>

Engine
look at :term:`storage engines`

extension
a PHP module that extends PHP with additional functionality.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/extension>

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions is a list of commonly asked question and there
answers.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ>

Field
one part of divided data/columns.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip>

host
any machine connected to a computer network, a node that has a hostname.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host>

hostname
the unique name by which a network attached device is known on a network.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Transfer_Protocol>

https
a :term:`HTTP`-connection with additional security measures.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services>

Index
a feature that allows quick access to the rows in a table.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6>

ISAPI
Internet Server Application Programming Interface is the API of Internet Information Services (IIS).

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP>

ISO
International Standards Organisation

JPEG
a most commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX>

Mac
Apple Macintosh is line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>

MCrypt
a cryptographic library.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCrypt>

mcrypt
the MCrypt PHP extension.

.. seealso:: <http://php.net/mcrypt>

MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is
an Internet Standard for the format of e-mail.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME>

module
some sort of extension for the Apache Webserver.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/module>

MySQL
a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS).

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>

mysqli
the improved MySQL client PHP extension.

.. seealso:: <http://php.net/mysqli>

mysql
the MySQL client PHP extension.

.. seealso:: <http://php.net/mysql>

OpenDocument
open standard for office documents.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument>

OS X
look at :term:`Mac OS X`.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>

PEAR
the PHP Extension and Application Repository.

.. seealso:: <http://pear.php.net/>

PCRE
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is the perl-compatible regular
expression functions for PHP

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP>

port
a connection through which data is sent and received.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_(database)>

Server
a computer system that provides services to other computing systems over a network.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)>

Storage Engines
handlers for different table types

.. seealso:: <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/storage-engines.html>

SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for exchanging
structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer
networks.

.. seealso:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP>

socket
a form of inter-process communication.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket#Computer_sockets>

SSL
Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure
communication on the Internet.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer>

Stored procedure
a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system

.. seealso:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_procedure>

SQL
Structured Query Language

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(database)>

tar
a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)>

TCP
Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the
Internet protocol suite.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP>

TCPDF
Rewrite of :term:`UFPDF` with various improvements.

.. seealso:: <http://www.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:: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger>

UFPDF
Unicode/UTF-8 extension for :term:`FPDF`

.. seealso:: <http://www.acko.net/node/56>

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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL>

Webserver
A computer (program) that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients and serving them Web pages.

.. seealso:: <http://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:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML>

ZIP
a popular data compression and archival format.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)>

zlib
an open-source, cross- platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

.. seealso:: <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib>