You have no idea! Actually I wrote my own classes to do all this stuff in pure C++ code and plain ASCII flat file data bases!
I started with the Apache CGI white paper and wrote the whole CGI communications exchange in C++ ... THE WHOLE THING.
Screw PHP! It's way to easy to hack!
Screw MySQL! The tables get corrupted and it crashes way to easy!
Plus I can put the ASCII tables in password protected web space so the customer can open them in a spreadsheet app!
OK.... Having said that, I really like LAMP! I run quite a few LAMP based app that I didn't write.......
Like The LaserBoy Forum!
James.