PHP - Introduction

  • What is PHP?

    PHP is stand for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a widely used open source general purpose serverside scripting language for web developing and can be embeded into HTML. PHP originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf and now it is produced by PHP group. Initially it stood as Personal Home Page but now stand for this way. This is an successful free alternative to other web competitors such as Microsoft Asp. Currently php 5.5.0 version released and available from 21st March 2013.

    In this note set I'm going to discuss about php and how to execute scripts on your server.
    • PHP supports many Databases
    • PHP is an open source Software
    • PHP is a free Software
    • PHP is a server side scripting language and executed on the server

  • Why PHP
    PHP is open source solution and runs on every platform such as Windows, Linux, Unix and etc. and compatible with all web servers such as Apache, IIS & Etc

  • Before you start PHP programming needed to install php in your machine. It is better to download wampserver for windows and xamp server for linux. This includes Apache, php, Mysql and other technologies required for web programming.
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