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You've got HTML down. JavaScript is coming along. Still, there no way to do the really cool things you've envisioned for your website. Could be you need a little server-side muscle. Look into CGI, just to see what's available, but before you start cranking out any code be sure you've checked out LAMP.

LAMP is the acronym for Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP (which gets us back on topic). These four represent an operating system, a web server, a database, and a scripting language that all work together very well to produce dynamic content. They are not inseparable by any means, but they are all superlative open source software that make up a formidable platform for dynamic web content (pages generated "on the fly" by querying a database).

Since PHP is often mentioned in the context of LAMP, it seemed reasonable to mention that.

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