PHP and MySQL Powered Reservation Software

IMS Hotel, Tour, Rental Reservation and eCommerce software is written in PHP and uses MySQL for its database infrastructure.

PHP (Short for Hypertext Pre-processor) is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language to create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages.

PHP is embedded within tags, so the web developer can move between HTML and PHP instead of using large amounts of code. Because PHP is executed on the server, the viewer cannot see the code.

PHP can perform the same tasks as a CGI program can do and is compatible with many different kinds of databases including MySQL.

MySQL enables organizations to cost-effectively scale-out their database infrastructure so they can exponentially grow their web-site traffic and transaction volumes.

IMS Voyager and IMScart use MySQL as its database medium.

The MySQL database consistently scores among the top for performance, throughput and scalability. So it's no surprise that MySQL is used for some of the most demanding, high volume, business-critical applications at companies like Associated Press, Cox Communications, Google, Lufthansa, MIT Lincoln Labs, NASA, Sabre Holdings, Yahoo and others. Companies have implemented large "scale out" web and data warehouse applications running MySQL on dozens, hundreds and even thousands of commodity Intel and Opteron servers saving millions of dollars in the process. MySQL scales to deal with billions of rows and terabytes of data making it suitable for a wide range of transactional and analytic applications.

Yahoo! also uses the MySQL database to power many of its web properties. The first was Yahoo! Finance, a popular web site that provides the full spectrum of financial services information.

Now, Yahoo! uses MySQL in many high-volume, business-critical systems throughout its network. Yahoo! has proven many times over that MySQL is an extremely reliable database and capable of even the most demanding, high-traffic applications.

Other MySQL users - http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/ and http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/mysql_power.html

So, basically there is no real limit to the scalability of IMS software.
 

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