PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a widely-used, opsource scripting language. It is similar in syntax to C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly .PHP scripts are executed on the server and return the html or plain text to the browser
There are various reason why PHP is so famous and used in all web development projects. The largest blogging platform wordpress is built over PHP
1) it runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X,Solaris,Exalogic,ibm etc.)
2) it is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache etc.)
3) it supports a wide range of databases. It can connect to oracle,mysql,sqlserver,sqllite etc
4) it is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
5) PHP learning curve is quite simple and we can use it quite efficiently as a language of website
This catagory contains articles on all the features on PHP, PHP coding
Variables in PHP (1) As with other programming language, PHP has the provision to define variable and manipulatewe have several types of variables in PHP, the most common used one is the string. It is use to store both the text and number .All the variable start with $ sign Example $tot= “This is total”; …
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History and Introduction It was initially created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. As of today, the current version of PHP is version 5, with version 6 in the making. it is the most popular scripting language on the web.It was initially called Personal Home page What is PHP? PHP full form is PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. …
Today I had learned about echo in PHP , it is not a function , it is a language construct. By language construct I mean that meaning that it is an integral part of PHP itself. It allows us to output data on the users web browser. You can output values stored in a variable …
Write first php program Now I had installed all I need to write PHP scripts or files but how do I write the first PHP program. First of all, I created a learning folder on my desktop where I intended to keep all the files I made during my learning process. So now I am …
My experience When I started playing around with PHP I noticed that php files can not be opened by a web browser the way HTML files do. HTML and CSS are rendered by the browser. In other words browsers know all that it takes to load and display an HTML page with or without CSS. …
