Whois & Analysis for elgg.org

MySQL (officially pronounced as "My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter, and "SQL", the abbreviation for Structured Query Language.

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.

For proprietary use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality.

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.

Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Development Team.

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment.

It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features.

It was also the first platform to bring ideas from commercial social networking platforms to educational software.

A web framework (WF) or web application framework (WAF) is a software framework that is designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs.

Web frameworks aim to automate the overhead associated with common activities performed in web development.

For example, many web frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks, and session management, and they often promote code reuse.

Although they often target development of dynamic web sites, they are also applicable to static websites.

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that supports the creation and modification of digital content.

It is often used to support multiple users working in a collaborative environment.