What is PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages or Websites.
- PHP is a widely-used, free, and efficient Programing Language.
- It is faster than other scripting languages, for example, ASP and JSP.
- It is stand for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”
- Its scripts are executed on the server too.
- It is free to download and use.
- And it can be embedded into HTML.
- PHP is an object-oriented language.
Why you should use PHP?
- PHP is a server-side scripting language, that is used to design the dynamic web applications with MySQL database
- Php supports almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
- As PHP is easy to install and set up, this is the main reason why PHP is the best language to learn.
- By using php we can generate dynamic page content.
- PHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
- PHP can add, delete, modify data in your database.