PHP PROGRAMMING 101: GETTING TO KNOW WHAT IS PHP?
What is PHP?
PHP is originally known as Personal Homepage but now it’s already known as Hypertext Preprocessor. This general-purpose scripting language was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. And its main use is to produce Dynamic Web Pages.
PHP is one of the widely-used scripting languages over the web servers because it’s free of charge. PHP can also be used for command-line scripting and client-side GUI application. And in terms security, PHP is the popular target of hacker especially those application that is poorly built.
PHP focuses on server-side scripting. And it’s like other server-side scripting languages that provide dynamic content from a web server to a client such as Microsoft ASP.NET, Sun Microsystem JavaServer Pages and mod_perl.
According to wikipedia.com “PHP is the fourth to the most popular computer programming language, ranking behind JAVA, C, and Visual Basic. PHP was also recorded as the most popular Apache module. And as of April 2007, 20 million Internet domains were hosted on servers with PHP installed.”
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