PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used to develop dynamic web pages. It's quite popular in web.2.0 space.

MySQL is popular for web applications. It's provided as a service by most of the Webhosting service providers. Its popularity for use with web applications is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL. Several high-traffic web sites (including Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google (not for searching), Nokia and YouTube) use MySQL for its data storage and logging of user data.

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS). The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

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2. PHP-MySQL Tutorial

3. Creating Dynamic Sites using PHP-MySQL

4. PHP Implementation Guide