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PHP is a popular server-sided scripting language used to enhance web pages and allow functionality like user login, forms, forums and galleries. It stands for Hypertext Pre-processor or Personal Home Page Tools. Learning PHP is important for a career in web design. The tutorials will teach PHP basics and how to set up a server to test scripts.

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The PHP Course Files

PHP is a popular server-sided scripting language used to enhance web pages and allow functionality like user login, forms, forums and galleries. It stands for Hypertext Pre-processor or Personal Home Page Tools. Learning PHP is important for a career in web design. The tutorials will teach PHP basics and how to set up a server to test scripts.

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PHP is probably the most popular scripting language on the web.

It is used to enhance
web pages. With PHP, you can do things like create username and password login
pages, check details from a form, create forums, picture galleries, surveys, and a whole
lot more. If you've come across a web page that ends in PHP, then the author has
written some programming code to liven up the plain, old HTML.

PHP is known as a server-sided language. That's because the PHP doesn't get
executed on your computer, but on the computer you requested the page from. The
results are then handed over to you, and displayed in your browser. Other scripting
languages you may have heard of are ASP, Python and Perl. (You don't need to know
any of these to make a start on PHP. In fact, these tutorials assume that you have no
programming experience at all.)

The most popular explanation of just what PHP stands for is "Hypertext Pre-processor".
But that would make it HPP, surely? An alternative explanation is that the initials come
from the earliest version of the program, which was called Personal Home Page Tools.
At least you get the letters "PHP" in the right order!

But PHP is so popular that if you're looking for a career in the web design/web scripting
industry then you just have to know it! In these tutorials, we'll get you up and running.
And, hopefully, it will be a lot easier than you think.

Course Files

To follow along with these tutorials, you'll need our Home and Learn Course files. These
can be downloaded from the following address:

Download the PHP Course Files

You'll also need to have a server, to test your scripts. Don't worry, though - we've found
an easy way to get a server up and running on your own PC. Move on to the next part
to learn more.

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