PHP introduction

will talk more about some languages as start we select PHP as server side web language

What is PHP?

Taken directly from PHP’s home, PHP.net, “PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.”

• PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
• PHP is a server-side scripting language, like ASP
• PHP scripts are executed on the server
• PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.)
• PHP is an open source software (OSS)
• PHP is free to download and use

Why PHP?

• Reduce the time to create large websites.
• Create a customized user experience for visitors based on information that you have gathered from them.
• Open up thousands of possibilities for online tools.
• Allow creation of shopping carts for e-commerce websites.

• PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)
• PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
• PHP is FREE to download from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
• PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side

What You Should Know?

• HTML / XHTML
• Some scripting knowledge
• Basic programming knowledge – This isn’t required, but if you have any traditional programming experience it will make learning PHP a great deal easier.

Where to Start?

• Install an Apache server on a Windows or Linux machine
• Install PHP on a Windows or Linux machine
• Install MySQL on a Windows or Linux machine

thats all for now next post will get more into installing Apache && PHP && MySql ,so till then keep it up & keep freak 😀