PHP || Dynamic Programming Language

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Friends, today we will know about what is PHP and how you guys can learn PHP from free open sources. PHP is a very powerful and usable language throughout the world. So many developers use PHP for their projects. PHP is universal, free, and a competitor to Microsoft ASP.

"History of PHP?"

PHP was created in 1997. It's called PHP for Personal Home Page. When Rasmus Lerdorf wrote a book called Common Gateway Interface, the Pearl programming language. PHP uses to maintain a personal website.

Rasmus Lerdorf then added the facility to add web forms and databases and named it Personal Home Page (PHP). PHP is then commonly used to create dynamic websites.

"Prerequisites for learning PHP"

Before you start learning PHP, you need to have a general idea of the following:

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Provides HTML-web page content.
CSS - Creates web page designs.
JavaScript - Controls the workflow of web pages.

PHP is an excellent and popular language It is so powerful that even the largest blogging system has been used as a core language in WordPress.
This is the first time that newcomers learn it as a server-side language because it is easy!

"Some information about PHP:"

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The full version of PHP: "Hypertext Preprocessor"
✪ PHP is a widely used and open-source scripting language.

✪ PHP scripts are executed on the server.

✪ PHP download and use are completely free.

✪ PHP was created in 1994 and was then called Personal Home Page (PHP). After that many versions of it come in stages. Click here to know all about the version.

✪ The PHP language was created by Rasmus Lerdorf.

✪ PHP has supported on all platforms i.e. cross platforms such as Windows, and Linux (will run on all Unix-like operating systems).

✪ With PHP, you can create any application or website from a blog, and eCommerce to the enterprise level.

✪ All PHP files will end with .php such as index.php, home.php, login.php, etc.

"What is a PHP file?"

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Download XAMPP form here

A PHP file can be used with other stuff like text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code.
The PHP code is executed on the server and the results are displayed in HTML format in the browser.
PHP files need to be saved with the extension ".php".

"Why learn PHP?"

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★ PHP can create dynamic page content.
★ Can create, read, write, delete and open and close files on PHP server.
★ PHP forms can store data.
★ PHP can store and send cookies.
★ PHP can add, subtract and modify data in the database.
★ PHP can control user access.
★ PHP can encrypt data.
★ PHP output is not limited to HTML. With PHP you can take pictures, PDF files, and even Flash movies as output. You
can also take any type of text as output. E.g. HTML and XML.

"Why use PHP?"

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PHP supports different platforms. For Example- Mac OS, Linux, Windows, Unix, etc.
All currently used servers support PHP. Such as Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc.
Supports large-sized databases in PHP.
PHP is completely free. Official PHP Resource Download: www.php.net
PHP is much easier to learn and can be run efficiently on the server-side.

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