Learning PHP

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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