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Jargon Dictionary
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protoclkjol (IMAP) is a protocol for retrieving e-mail messages that syncs with your email server instead of downloading every message. Good for people who use the same mail account on multiple computers.
MySQL
The worlds most popular open source database server. Allows you to store and retrieve data using SQL.
PHP
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
PHPMyAdmin
This is a front-end for MySQL that allows you to easily update and maintain your database.
POP
Post Office Protocol (POP) is a protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.
SQL
SQL is a standard computer language for accessing and manipulating data in databases.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) refers to the ability to edit a web page such that what you see when you are editing is what the final result of the webpage will look like.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.
XPATH
An expression language used by XSLT to access or refer to parts of an XML document.
XSL
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation including XPATH and XSLT.
XSLT
XSL Transformations (XSLT) is a language for transforming XML.