PHP A Server-Side Scripting Language

PHP is a server-side scripting language, which is a Web Server technology in which a user’s request is fulfilled by running a script directly on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages. It is usually used to provide interactive web sites that interface to database or other data stores.

 

Why PHP?

* PHP is a server-side scripting language, which will executed on the server.

* PHP supports many databases (MySQL,  Informix,  Oracle,  Sybase, PostgreSQL,  Generic ODBC, etc…)

* PHP is an open source software.

* PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)

* PHP is free to download and use. 

 

PHP History

Ø PHP Original name was “Personal Home Page” Tools and the new name was selected by community voting.

Ø PHP was created in late 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, a software engineer and Apache team member.

Ø Version 2 was released under the title PHP/FI and included form Interpreter (a tool for parsing SQL queries).

Ø By 1997 this was used in 50000 sites worldwide. Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans (Israel Programmers) developed PHP3 and PHP4.

Ø PHP5 poised Object Oriented Programming functionality.