Does anyone know how when you download a program it says
Open with? what do I use with .php file
2006-10-20 21:39:10 · 6 answers · asked by yoshimtu 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Explorer!
..you can use Opera..
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PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic Web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side application software, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications.
PHP competes with Visual Basic and C++ as the third most popular programming language behind Java and C, based on world wide availability of practitioners, courses and vendors.[1] Available under the PHP License, PHP is an open source language and is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation.
History
PHP was written as a set of CGI binaries in the C programming language by the Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage.[2] Lerdorf initially created PHP to display his résumé and to collect certain data, such as how much traffic his page was receiving. "Personal Home Page Tools" was publicly released on June 8, 1995 after Lerdorf combined it with his own Form Interpreter to create PHP/FI.[3]
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PHP 3
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive initialism "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". The development team officially released PHP/FI 2 in November 1997 after months of beta testing. Public testing of PHP 3 began immediately and the official launch came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend engine in 1999.[4] They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel, which is actively involved with PHP development.
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PHP 4
In May 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released. The latest version as of September 2006 is 4.4.4. PHP 4 is currently still supported by security updates for those applications which require it.
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PHP 5
On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by Zend Engine II. PHP 5 included new features such as:[5]
Robust support for Object-Oriented Programming (or OOP) through PHP Data Objects
Performance enhancements taking advantage of the new engine
Better support for MySQL through a completely rewritten extension
Better XML support through a suite of interoperable tools
Embedded support for SQLite
Integrated SOAP support
Data iterators
Error handling through exceptions
The latest version as of October 2006 is PHP 5.1.6.
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Usage
PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output, but command-line scripting and client-side GUI applications are part of the three primary uses of PHP as well.
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Server-side scripting
Originally designed to create dynamic web pages, server-side scripting is the principal focus for PHP. While running the PHP parser with a web server and web browser, the PHP model can be compared to other server-side scripting languages such as Microsoft's ASP.NET system, Adobe ColdFusion, Sun Microsystems' JavaServer Pages, Zope, mod_perl and the Ruby on Rails framework, as they all provide dynamic content to the client from a web server. To more directly compete with the "framework" approach taken by these systems, Zend is working on the Zend Framework - an emerging (as of June 2006) set of PHP building blocks and best practices; other PHP frameworks along the same lines include CakePHP and Symfony.
The LAMP architecture has become popular in the Web industry as a way of deploying inexpensive, reliable, scalable, secure web applications. PHP is commonly used as the P in this bundle alongside Linux, Apache and MySQL. PHP can be used with a large number of relational database management systems, runs on all of the most popular web servers and is available for many different operating systems. This flexibility means that PHP has a wide installation base across the Internet; over 18 million Internet domains are currently hosted on servers with PHP installed.[6]
Examples of popular server-side PHP applications include phpBB, PHP-Nuke, Joomla, Wordpress and MediaWiki.
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Command-line scripting
PHP also provides a command line interface SAPI for developing shell and desktop applications, log parsing, or other system administration tasks. It is increasingly used on the command line for tasks which have traditionally been the domain of Perl, awk, or shell scripting.
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Client-side GUI applications
PHP provides bindings to GUI libraries such as GTK+ and text mode libraries like ncurses in order to facilitate development of a broader range of cross-platform GUI applications.
2006-10-20 21:44:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
PHP is a programming language that is typically used on the servers of dynamic websites. There's no real reason for you to open it (unless you're a programmer, but then you'd know what PHP is) , but if you'd like to see what a PHP program looks like, you could open it with Word or Notepad.
However, I sometimes try to save pictures from websites and sometimes they get the PHP extension by accident. I'm not sure how come. Anyway, in that case it's simply a matter of renaming the file, changing the extension to what it's supposed to be. (e.g., JPG, GIF or PNG).
2006-10-20 21:51:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To visualize a php file you need a LAMP environment, where LAMP goes for Linux Apache MySQL PHP; you could also try a WAMP [Windows AMP] but it's not that stable.
To edit a php file, you just open it with your plain text editor: NOT a word processor because it'll insert nonsense hidden signs that will crash the source code.
2006-10-20 21:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Georg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
php files are used on web sites and are not meant to be opened directly.
When a php file is opened on a web site, the web site opens it, not you.
2006-10-20 21:47:28 · answer #4 · answered by rumplestiltskin12357 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By opening a folder with hph!
2006-10-20 21:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
check out here
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
2006-10-20 23:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋