Note: We covered a “server” interaction during the application/project lecture. Apache is a HTTP server where we “deploy” our PHP application upon. This server is the same as if we wanted to host a PHP project on a cloud-based service or on another physical server. This Apache server “interprets” PHP code if we have the proper bindings and PHP installed in addition to Apache. So, us running a local PHP server mimics Apache+PHP itself. There is a lot of configuration and setup to run an Apache server so we will not perform this locally.

So, another aspect of PHP that we can learn about is phpMyAdmin which is a PHP application that manages MySQL databases. There is an online resource that allows us to use phpMyAdmin in order to create databases, tables, and populate these with data. In the next lecture, we will actually use a different online resource to connect to a MySQL database.

Let’s explore some of phpMyAdmin: https://demo.phpmyadmin.net