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The primary purpose of PHP is to process web or http requests from a browser through a web server and to generate valid responses to such requests. The nature of a web request is that it’s usually short lived and it does not have any knowledge about previous or future requests. The principle makes it possible for even a modest hardware configuration to serve a large number of requests in a short amount of time. This is often measured in the average response time or the number of requests per second or per hour.
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Kromann, F.M. (2016). Web Fundamentals. In: PHP and MySQL Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0605-8_12
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