what is PHP?

Question

Please anybody tell me about PHP.

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Answer 1

PHP is a programming language - silly, but the name stands for PHP Hypertext Processor. It is open-source and free to use - works well with MySQL, which is an open-source database software. Basically PHP extends basic HTML by allowing users to create dynamic content, derived from databases and from variables set elsewhere.



The above was my description - here is the description of PHP from the PHP.net website:

"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. " Check it out at php.net



Now that I look at your question, it looks like you were just posting it to get a link to your site...

Answer 2

PHP is a server side programing language.

PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page which is now officially known as Hypertext Preprocessor.

75% of Web 2.0 sites are built in PHP.

Major sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook as well as in some of the world’s biggest open source projects like WordPress and Drupal.

Answer 3

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



In an HTML page, PHP code is enclosed within special PHP tags. When a visitor opens the page, the server processes the PHP code and then sends the output (not the PHP code itself) to the visitor's browser. It means that, unlike JavaScript, you don't have to worry that someone can steal your PHP script.



PHP offers excellent connectivity to many databases including MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, and Generic ODBC. The popular PHP-MySQL combination (both are open-source products) is available on almost every UNIX host. Being web-oriented, PHP also contains all the functions to do things on the Internet - connecting to remote servers, checking email via POP3 or IMAP, url encoding, setting cookies, redirecting, etc.

Answer 4

PHP is a C-like scripting language (requires no compile by the developer). While it provides a lot of functionality making it ideal for generating Web pages/using within Web pages, it is a general purpose scripting language just like Perl or anything else. It can be run from the command line. I have scripts that manipulate the file system. I have scripts that fetch other pages from the Web and download them to my local directory. I have scripts that generate XML and then open the XML in an application. Just wanted to make the point that it's not just for HTML.

Answer 5

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source scripting language. It is mainly used for web development. Not only this, you also use it for server side scripting language as like as javascript. You also employ it into HTML. PHP can be easily embedded into HTML.

Answer 6

PHP is a server- side scripting language http://javalearnsimply.weebly.com/php-guide.html#Wphp

Answer 7

PHP is most value able programing language

Answer 8

PHP is a hypertext preproccesor.. it's a programming laguage that allows all other programming language to connect with each other through this kind of programming laguage...gets?

Answer 9

Agree with others. PHP is the go to technology for the new generation small and medium enterprises. However one limitation is that it is cannot be encrypted (like .jar in Java)

Answer 10

php is a development part. it is mostly used for web development compare then dotnet and java because it is open source platform.

Answer 11

It's a computer script language for server side scripting. You can use it to command applications, web designing, etc.

Answer 12

Hyper text preprocessor