PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications. PHP can be deployed on most web servers and as a standalone interpreter, on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. PHP is free software released under the PHP License; it is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP.
While PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”, it is now said to stand for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”, a recursive acronym.
After reading all the things written it’s natural for one to get attracted towards PHP.
Well, PHP is simple than other server side scripting.. If you are familiar with C,C++ , perl or Java , it’s easy for you to understand PHP.
Most of the syntax are from C and java. Also, PHP started supported OOP programming since PHP 3.0 but it was improved in PHP 4.0 and finally the implementation of OOP in PHP was totally rewritten in PHP 5.0
Being open source it’s highly supported, also it’s open source. Most of the webs are written in PHP, Facebook is one of the popular website. So you can imagine how good PHP is.
So in next lesson we see basic things like getting PHP and all.