PHP INTRODUCTION

PHP is an open-source, interpreted, and object-oriented scripting language that executes at the server-side. PHP is well suited for web development. Therefore, it is used to develop web applications (an application that executes on the server and generates the dynamic pages.)

PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 but appeared in the market in 1995. Some important points need to be noticed about PHP are as followed:

• PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.
• PHP is an interpreted language, i.e., there is no need for compilation.
• PHP is faster than other scripting languages, for example, ASP and JSP.
• PHP is a server-side scripting language, which is used to manage the dynamic content of the website.
  PHP can be embedded into HTML.
• PHP is an object-oriented language.
• PHP is an open-source scripting language.

PHP Features

PHP is very popular language because of its simplicity and open source. There are some important features of PHP given below: