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Multi-tier development is a development process oriented to create software that is easy to maintain and integrate. As the various Apache and C libraries open themselves to PHP programmers, the time to start thinking multi-tier is now.
As we move through the chapter we will look at:
The evolution of web applications
The three tier architecture
Generic multi-tier architectures
Goals of multi-tiering
Various models of developing multi-tier applications
HTML-based architecture
XML-based architecture