PHP Tutorial
PHP Tutorial
PHP is a server side scripting language. that is used to develop Static websites or Dynamic
websites or Web applications. PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, that earlier stood for
Personal Home Pages.
PHP scripts can only be interpreted on a server that has PHP installed.
The client computers accessing the PHP scripts require a web browser only.
A PHP file contains PHP tags and ends with the extension ".php".
A PHP file can also contain tags such as HTML and client side scripts such as JavaScript.
HTML is an added advantage when learning PHP Language. You can even learn PHP without
knowing HTML but its recommended you at least know the basics of HTML.
Database management systems DBMS for database powered applications.
For more advanced topics such as interactive applications and web services, you will need
JavaScript and XML.