hear we go againTΞΞNSTAR™ said:
What is PHP?
PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page” as it was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to track the visitors to his online résumé. As its usefulness and capabilities grew (and as it started being used in more professional situations), it came to mean “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.”
According to the official PHP Web site,
PHP is a
1) “Widely-used general-purpose scripting lan- guage that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.”( PHP can be embedded into HTML means that you can take a standard HTML page, drop in some PHP wherever you need it, and end up with a dynamic (“ill explain what is a dynamic web page is later”)
2) Makes PHP very approachable for anyone (that’s done even a little bit of HTML work.)
3) Also, PHP is a scripting language, as opposed to a programming language: PHP was designed to write Web scripts, not stand- alone applications (although, with some extra effort, you can now create applications in PHP).
4) All PHP scripts must be accessed through a URL (http://-something).Its cross-platform nature means that PHP runs on most oper- ating systems, including Windows, Unix (and its many variants),and Macintosh.
5) More important, the PHP scripts written on one server will normally work on another
With little or no modification.
Let’s meet in the next lesson. (For me this is like learning “rocket science”, but I asked from a person who learned this before and he told this is easy.)
In next lesson we will talk about
……………….…why use PHP?
………………….what is a dynamic website? and other “gossips” related to PHP (my professional subject is gossip ne
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