What is php?
1) PHP (Hypertext Prerprocessor) is a widely used open source. 2) It is general purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web developments and it can be embedded into HTML.
What is PHP ?
1) PHP (Hypertext Prerprocessor) is a widely used open source.
2) It is general purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web developments and it can be embedded into HTML.
An Introductory Example of PHP:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
echo "My first PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>
Introduction:
It is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.
And it is a widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP.
PHP 7 is the latest stable release.
PHP code is executed on the server.
What You Should Already Know
Basic understanding of the following:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
It is an amazing and popular language!
What is a PHP File?
- It contains text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code
- Its code is executed on the server, and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML
- Extention used for PHP files ".php".
What Can PHP Do?
- It can create or generate dynamic page content.
- It can create, read, open, write, delete,and close on the server.
- It can collect form data.
- It can send and receive cookies
- It can add, delete, modify data in your database
- It can be used to control user-access
- It can encrypt data
Why PHP?
- PHP supports various platforms or runs on various platforms(Linux,Unix, Mac OS etc)
- also it is compatible with almost all servers (Apache, IIS, etc)
- It supports wide range of database.
- It is free to download.
- Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
- It is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side
What's new in PHP 7
- It is much faster than the previous popular stable release (PHP 5.6)
- It has improved Error Handling
- It supports stricter Type Declarations for function arguments
- It supports new operators (like the spaceship operator:
<=>)
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