PHP is the most common scripting language on the server-side used to build dynamic web pages. It stands for Preprocessor in Hypertext and it is an open-source server-side scripting language that is very common and widely used for writing dynamically generated web pages. It was originally developed in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf and classified initially as Personal Home Page.

 

Its functions are performed on the server and the outputs are sent as standard HTML to the internet browser. It can be built into the number of popular databases, including Mysql, Mssql, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, etc.

 

What You Can Do with PHP

There are a lot more things you can do with it

  •           You can continuously generate several websites as well as the files.
  •             On the server, you can establish, enable, read, write, and close files. 
  •        You may gather information including user data, address, mobile no, etc. from either a web page.
  •             You can give direct notifications to your website's consumers.
  •             To monitor your database client, you can send and receives cookies.
  •             Data can be saved, removed, and updated into your database.

 

Advantages of PHP over Other Languages

If you're associated with many other communities onto the serverside, including ASP.NET or Java, you could guess that would make PHP so different. There are still many benefits to why you would pick it.

 

Simple to learn: It can be quickly learned and used and also recognized as the best choice of language to study for novice developers who have just begun in software development.

Open source: It is an open-source project that is maintained by a community of developers who make its source code free to download and use.

Portability: It operates on different networks including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc. and is associated with almost every database used nowadays, such as Apache, IIS, etc.

Fast Performance: Its scripts are written generally run or jump higher than any of those written in several other dynamic languages such as ASP, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.

Vast Community: Since it is embraced by the global community, it is incredibly easy to find assistance or documentation relating to PHP online.

What This Tutorial Covers

This sequence of PHP tutorial examines all basic programming concepts, covering data types, functions, developing and using factors, producing results, organizing your code that makes decisions in your programs or looping several times during the same a segment of code, building and controlling strings and arrays, specifying and calling functions, etc.

When you're familiar with the fundamentals, you'll pass onto the next level describing the definition operating the system, connections and passwords, times and dates, and also how to send emails from your program, handle and validate forms, perform information ventilation and handle errors in PHP.

Finally, you can discuss several algebraic concepts such as categories and properties, JSON data parsing, pattern detection with namespaces, exception managing, and how-to PHP to manipulate the data in MySQL database and create useful functions such as user login, Ajax search, etc.