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Payment Processor

Enables websites to accept credit card details with real-time confirmation and electronic settlement. - read more

Perl

Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, a robust programming language frequently used for creating CGI programs on Web servers because it is faster than UNIX shell script programs, it can read and write binary files, and it can process very large files. - read more

PHP

(Short for Hypertext Pre-processor) is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web content. PHP scripts can be embedded in HTML code and use similar syntax to the Perl and C programming languages. - read more

PHP3

Alternative extension for php pages. - read more

PHTML

A PHTML (sometimes called a PHP) page is a Web page that includes a script written in PHP, a language comparable to JavaScript or Microsoft's VBScript. Like Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) page, a PHTML page contains programming that is executed at the Web server rather than at the ... - read more

POP3

An e-mail protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over an Internet connection to your local computer. - read more

PostScript

A page-description language developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., used when printing high-quality text and graphics. Desk-top publishing or illustration programs that create PostScript output can print on any PostScript printer or image setter, because PostScript is hardware-independent. An interpret ... - read more