>What is PHP ?
>Is perl the language for stored procedure in MySQL ?

PHP is a web scripting language similar to ASP. It is written in C. With PHP, you can either embed PHP tags in your web page, or you can compile a PHP program and send arguments to it. It is very powerful, quick, runs on multiplatforms, and fairly easy to learn with its C-like structure. You can find more information about PHP at www.php.net.
Currently, MySQL does not have support for Stored Procedures. They are on the TODO list, but here is what the MySQL development team has to say about them:

"Stored procedures. This is currently not regarded to be very important as stored procedures are not very standardized yet. Another problem is that true stored procedures make it much harder for the optimizer and in many cases the result is slower than before We will, on the other hand, add a simple (atomic) update language that can be used to write loops and such in the MySQL server."

I'm not sure that I agree that they aren't very important, but I'm not developing it.

You can learn more about MySQL at www.mysql.com.

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