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Introduction to PHP

Started by Tech, August 31, 2007, 01:47:16 AM

Tech

What is PHP?

PHP stands for "PHP: HyperText Preprocessor". PHP is a server side scripting language for making dynamically driven websites. PHP written scripts can be used to keep track of your visitor's activities on your site, send out emails to your subscribers, let your users upload files or images to your site, and drive the content on your site dynamically using databases. The possibilities are endless. Most of the social networking websites you visit are writing in PHP. Yep! PHP is that powerful.

What are PHP benefits?

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.

What PHP can do for me? PHP can greatly enhance the functionality of your website. It allows you to write scripts which let your visitors interact with you through your website. If you run a small business website, you can use PHP to let your users send you feed back to you on your products ad services or create a form which will allow your customers to send you emails, etc, etc.

Is PHP easy to learn?

Thou PHP will allow you to almost do anything complicated on your website. But you can implement simple forms or logic on your site very easily. At PHP-Learn-It.com, i explain some of those techniques with examples.

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sawnhanry

In the PHP,You can easily install PHP and MySQL on your home computer easily (see PHP installation page). This will allow you to write and test code on your computer and later deploy it to your PHP web hosting account.

declanjorden

PHP is for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. You create pages with PHP and HTML. goes directly into your web pages, so there is no need for a special development environment or IDE. is an open source language, used primarily for dynamic web content and server-side applications.

aadilbrown

PHP is a Open Source language. PHP programs can also run in Windows and Unix.  PHP IS scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. PHP can interact with MySQL databases.

serleselby

PHP is a Open Source language. PHP programs can also run in Windows and Unix.  PHP IS scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. PHP can interact with MySQL databases.

ramsankeiio

PHP is the nearly everyone highly developed programming language, the thing that I like most about PHP is that its free and doesn't require paying anything to anybody

brandonbrownes

PHP is the basic and one of the famous programming language. Which is very helpful for us. PHP is a popular general-purpose server-side scripting language that can be embedded in HTML to create a variety of mini-applications, but can also be used to build large complex applications.

dikertrome

PHP is excellent server side scripting language. It is a powerful tool for making active and dynamic web pages. Php scripts are performed on the server. Php is open source software and is free to download and use.

jesminlouise

PHP stand for hyper text pre-processor. It is best server side scripting language that is used to create dynamic and  interactive web pages. PHP is platform independent, open source software which support so many database. 

madelinekim

Quote from: jesminlouise on April 30, 2012, 06:44:57 PM
PHP stand for hyper text pre-processor. It is best server side scripting language that is used to create dynamic and  interactive web pages. PHP is platform independent, open source software which support so many database. 

PHP is one type of scripting language. It is open source language so that you need not spend money buying its license. There are many PHP tutorial are there, you can easily search on Internet. PHP includes functionality for connecting to databases.

jasonmilsont

For those of you who are looking to develop an e-commerce web page, you have to consider using PHP web host because you will be able to get a lot of advantage. There will be a lot of data source and details engaged in a company web page and that is why you need to have a web host that can manage all the details that you have.

James Andy

PHP is the most useful languages for Web development. Most Web applications are very easy to integrate with PHP such as Ajax, Flash and some more offering best website visibility.

annahussy

PHP is Hypertext preprocessor which is a server side scripting language that is used to develop a reliable and valuable dynamic website applications. PHP is an open source programming language so it is easily available from the web.

Mary Whitley

Every one is giving here descriptive introduction of PHP. So, I would like to give an example of PHP coding

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>

        <?php
            echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
        ?>

    </body>
</html>

david.smith

PHP is a server side scripting language, widely used in internet programming. We can develop pages with dynamic content by using PHP. By using PHP we can interact with database servers and manage the page content accordingly.

sankalppatil

PHP stands for "HyperText Preprocessor". PHP is Hypertext preprocessor which is a server-side scripting language that is used to develop reliable and valuable dynamic website applications. It is an open source programming language so it is easily available from the web.