What is PHP?
- PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
- PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language
- PHP scripts are executed on the server
- PHP is free to download and use
A PHP script is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent back to the browser.
**PHP statements end with a semicolon (;
).
Uses of php
- It is used for create dynamic website.
- To Interacting with web server (Apache etc)
- To interacting with any back-end / database server e.g. MySQL.
- To interaction with the native file system of the OS.
- To implement the business logical layers (one or more)
- It can Encrypt Data.
- Access Cookies variable and set cookies.
- More....