Glossary
- SSL
- Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:.
- Smarty
- Smarty is a template engine written in PHP. Typically, these templates will include variables —such as {$variable}— and a range of logical and loop operators to allow adaptability within of the template.
- SMTP
- (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard Internet protocol for transferring electronic mail messages.