PHP Introduction

Introduction

PHP- Hypertext Preprocessor is server side script language like ASP. Its scripts executes on server. PHP is open source software. The goal of PHP language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

• PHP was released in 1995 by a programmer – Rasmus Lerdorf and is now maintained by PHP Group.
• Its original full form was personal homepage tools.
• Zeev and Andi rewrote the parser for PHP to launch PHP3 with a full form "Hypertext Pre-processor".
• It can be used with different operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and Solaris.
• It can be linked to different database systems easily. 

What is PHP ?

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  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-39633801-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

PHP Full Form

PHP Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor