What is PHP software and what is its use?

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What is PHP software and what is its use?

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PHP previously stands for Personal Home Page however it is now more known as Hypertext Preprocessor. It was originally created to maintain the user’s personal homepage. It is a server-side scripting language, and it supports databases such as MySQL, Informix, and others.  It was created for Web development so that the user can produce dynamic Web pages, and it can be downloaded for free on different platforms like Windows and Linux. 

Aside from that, PHP is also compatible with most servers like Apache and IIS, and it is easy to learn and use.  To download PHP for windows Operating System, just click on the link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-Compilers/PHP-for-Windows.shtml

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What is PHP software and what is its use?

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Personal Home Page was old name of PHP, Now it renamed as “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. PHP is a server-side scripting language and it is used to create dynamic Web Pages. PHP is applicable on almost every Web server and Operating systems, without any charges.
 
PHP is a competitor to Microsoft’s ASP (Active Server Pages). PHP is one of the major developed server-side scripting languages to be embedded into an HTML document source, rather than processing data by using external files.
 
Inputting codes are used as a script language to be interpreted by a Web server, with a PHP processor module, and then the generation of the resulting Web page follows. 
 
The command – line interface was added in PHP, which is functional in standalone graphical applications. Now It is installed on more than 20 millions Websites, and more than one million Web servers.
 
 

 

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What is PHP software and what is its use?

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Hello.

 

PHP is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", it was formerly known as Personal homepage. It is a server-side scripting language used to generate a dynamic Web page. PHP is cross-platform, means that it can be used on most major operating systems such as Linux, Microsoft Window, Mac OSX, etc. It is available for most popular Web servers including – Apache, IIS, and more. With PHP you have the liberty of choosing which operating system and web server you want.

 

There are varieties of things that PHP can do: easy to customize your Web page and a lot easier to update, you can create a social network by adding features on your website like hosting a blog or forum, visitor tracking, etc. These are just few of what PHP can do. PHP is widely-used and open source, does not require any licensing and it is free for use by anyone, including you.

 

You can browse the web for free PHP tutorials.

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Static websites are made using HTML, but it is quite difficult update static pages. PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor) is a server-side scripting language used to create dynamic WebPages.
 
To develop website and making websites more beautiful and functioning, Web developers uses PHP.
 
And PHP is open source and free software and an easy tool for creating, editing or handling scripts using the special language. Many databases like MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc are supported by PHP.
 
Different forms such as login form, application form are designed by PHP. 
 
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What is PHP software and what is its use?

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