PHP WEB Application Development

Introduction to PHP

PHP is the recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor. PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf and now it is maintained by The PHP Group. It is an open source server side scripting language. Pre-requisite for learning PHP is HTML. PHP code can be embedded inside HTML code. PHP is mainly used for web development. Everything in PHP is enclosed in angle brackets

“<?php ……………..?> “.

PHP allows writing web pages which are dynamically generated. When a user visits any of the website which has PHP webpage’s, then a web server processes the PHP code and translate it into HTML page and then send to the requesting client.

What is PHP?

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

•      PHP is a server-side scripting language, like ASP

•      PHP scripts are executed on the server

•      PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle,    Sybase,        Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.)

•      PHP is an open source software

•      PHP is free to download and use

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

 Scripting language for making logic driven websites.

Why PHP ……?

•      PHP is a free open source language. That means you don't have to pay thousands of dollars in licensing fee to acquire PHP.

•       Best of all, it is easy to install.

•      The most striking feature of it is that it is easy to learn.

•       PHP is used by millions of people and developers around the world.

•       There are thousands of websites on the internet which are written using PHP. One primary example is Yahoo! Bookmarks.

•      PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)

•      PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)

•      PHP is FREE to download from the official PHP resource: www.solmeyvn.com

•      PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side