What is PHP?
PHP is an acronym for Hypertext
Preprocessor
PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting
language
PHP scripts are executed on the server
PHP costs nothing, it is free to download
and use
What is a PHP File?
PHP files can contain text, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, and PHP code
PHP code are executed on the server, and
the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML
PHP files have extension ".php"
What Can PHP Do?
PHP can generate dynamic page content
PHP can create, open, read, write, and
close files on the server
PHP can collect form data
PHP can send and receive cookies
PHP can add, delete, modify data in your
database
PHP can restrict users to access some pages
on your website
PHP can encrypt data
Why PHP?
PHP runs on various platforms (Windows,
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
PHP is compatible with almost all servers
used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
PHP supports a wide range of databases
PHP is free. Download it from the official
PHP resource: www.php.net
PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently
on the server side
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