Tuesday, October 21, 2008

What is PHP?

PHP is an acronym often repeated in web site design circles and a recent survey (Nexen.net, March 2007) found that, of the 10.1 million servers polled, 33.93% were running PHP; but what is PHP? This article gives a brief introduction to PHP and shows how it can be used.

What is PHP?

PHP is a programming language, although to be more precise, it's a scripting language - that's to say that it uses an interpreter whenever a script is run rather than having a fully compiled program on the system. PHP can be run from the command line, but the most usual place for PHP is within a web page where it can add dynamic content.


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