On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 11:34 -0700, Sam Hobbs wrote: > Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > What is a Stack? > > I have been programming since 1971 and I have seen the term "stack" > but > never taken the time to look it up. I assume it is another of many > words > that are used just to be different and that other terms (such as > library > or API) would also work. > The stack refers to the whole architecture, e.g. Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) Library is a collection of classes/functions usually, sometimes as compiled code and not PHP source, that performs a specific task (or a group of related tasks). An example would be something like the GD library, which adds lots of image functionality to PHP. An API is an interface, which could be a remote one like in the case of Twitter, or a local one, such as an interface to a database. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
