Thread: What is PHP? Can you explain?

PHP, stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor", is a server-side.

PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages.

HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with some unique features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow Web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PHP is a server-side scripting accent for creating activating Web pages. You actualize pages with PHP and HTML. When a company opens the page, the server processes the PHP commands and again sends the after-effects to the visitor's browser, just as with ASP or Cold Fusion. The best things in application PHP are that it is acutely simple for a newcomer, but offers abounding avant-garde appearance for a able programmer. Don't be abashed account the continued account of PHP's features. You can jump in, in a abbreviate time, and alpha autograph simple scripts in a few hours.

Visit PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor for more info. It was taken over by Sun Microsystems over a year ago. Sun was taken over by Oracle a few months ago. It can be run on indows and a full stack is available as a single exe file from apache friends - xampp and is hosted on SourceForge.net.

PHP is a programming language used for the server-side of the website. When you learned PHP it is better to learn also a database management system like MySql, they are match together. Both PHP and MySql are free software. I think being free softwares adds popularity to these two programming languages.