PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Yeah it is little bit confusing the 1st 'P' of PHP stands for PHP again. This type of acronym is called recursive acronym.
PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. It became very popular from the year 1995.
PHP is a server side scripting language, that means unless JavaScript it executes on the server. PHP can interact with server's resources, such as Databases. The main salient features of PHP is it is free and open source, its supports all most all Databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle etc etc. It also supports Ajax, it is available for Linux, Windows and Mac platforms.
Many websites use PHP, one of the famous website Facebook also uses PHP.
From the beginning PHP was not object oriented but later object orientation feature was added to PHP 5.
PHP supports all programming tools such as variables, all operators, if-else statements, elseif statements, switch case, for loops, while loop, do while loop, continue and break statement, Arrays, user defined functions, include statement, global and static variables, file handling etc etc.
Some special features of PHP are reading data from web pages, server variables, session variables, cookie variables, HTTP headers, checking data with regular expressions, FTP, Email, Drawing images on server and at last XML and RSS.
I will recommend PHP to all web designers. If you need more support then please check www.php.net, the official site of PHP.
If you have any questions the please write to me at shirshendubhowmick@theinec.com
PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. It became very popular from the year 1995.
PHP is a server side scripting language, that means unless JavaScript it executes on the server. PHP can interact with server's resources, such as Databases. The main salient features of PHP is it is free and open source, its supports all most all Databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle etc etc. It also supports Ajax, it is available for Linux, Windows and Mac platforms.
Many websites use PHP, one of the famous website Facebook also uses PHP.
From the beginning PHP was not object oriented but later object orientation feature was added to PHP 5.
PHP supports all programming tools such as variables, all operators, if-else statements, elseif statements, switch case, for loops, while loop, do while loop, continue and break statement, Arrays, user defined functions, include statement, global and static variables, file handling etc etc.
Some special features of PHP are reading data from web pages, server variables, session variables, cookie variables, HTTP headers, checking data with regular expressions, FTP, Email, Drawing images on server and at last XML and RSS.
I will recommend PHP to all web designers. If you need more support then please check www.php.net, the official site of PHP.
If you have any questions the please write to me at shirshendubhowmick@theinec.com
