what is the meaning of php?

Question

in modern techonology most of the people are using the php as the front end of working and back hand as the oracle database connectivity so i want to know what is this php is there any more advanced technology than php what i must do to learn it

Answer 1

From Wikipedia:
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic Web pages.[1] 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 other programming languages such as Perl, Ruby, and Python; as of December 2006, it is ranked 5th, down one from last year, by TIOBE Programming Community Index. The rankings are based on world wide availability of practitioners, courses and vendors.[2] Available under the PHP License, PHP is an open source language and considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation.

Answer 2

1. What is PHP?

From the preface of the manual:

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

A nice introduction to PHP by Stig Sæther Bakken can be found at http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php on the Zend website. Also, much of the PHP Conference Material is freely available.

2. What does PHP stand for?

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym. The curious can visit Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing for more information on recursive acronyms.

3. What is the relation between the versions?

PHP/FI 2.0 is an early and no longer supported version of PHP. PHP 3 is the successor to PHP/FI 2.0 and is a lot nicer. PHP 4 is the current generation of PHP, which uses the Zend engine under the hood. PHP 5 uses Zend engine 2 which, among other things, offers many additional OOP features.

4. Can I run several versions of PHP at the same time?

Yes. See the INSTALL file that is included in the PHP 4 source distribution. Also, read the related appendix.

5. What are the differences between PHP 3 and PHP 4?

There are a couple of articles written on this by the authors of PHP 4. Here's a list of some of the more important new features:


Extended API module

Generalized build process under Unix

Generic web server interface that also supports multi-threaded web servers

Improved syntax highlighter

Native HTTP session support

Output buffering support

More powerful configuration system

Reference counting

Answer 3

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 other programming languages such as Perl, Ruby, and Python; as of December 2006, it is ranked 5th, down one from last year, by TIOBE Programming Community Index. The rankings are based on world wide availability of practitioners, courses and vendors. Available under the PHP License, PHP is an open source language and considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation

Answer 4

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym. PHP and Perl are two widely used scripting languages used for those databases. You can learn PHP by going to its respected website at www.php.net.

You can also go to any local bookstore and pick up self learning books.

Answer 5

PHP (HYPERTEXT PREPROCESSOR) is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.

Answer 6

(PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. It is commonly used to extract data out of a database and present it on the Web page. NT/2000 and Unix Web servers support the language, and it is widely used with the mSQL database.

Answer 7

Personal Home Page was one of the earliest common names although it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It started out as a simplified means of writing html code and has evolved into a powerful scripting and control language for web-based applications. It's quite powerful in its own right but there are other possibilities. .Net and Active Server Pages -- both from Microsoft -- come to mind but there are others as well. PHP's biggest advantages are that it is open source and cross platform.

Answer 8

PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. You create pages with PHP and HTML. When a visitor opens the page, the server processes the PHP commands and then sends the results to the visitor's browser, just as with ASP or ColdFusion. Unlike ASP or ColdFusion, however, PHP is Open Source and cross-platform. PHP runs on Windows NT and many Unix versions, and it can be built as an Apache module and as a binary that can run as a CGI. When built as an Apache module, PHP is especially lightweight and speedy. Without any process creation overhead, it can return results quickly, but it doesn't require the tuning of mod_perl to keep your server's memory image small.

Answer 9

It originally stood for "personal home page", now it's simply PHP or PHP:Hypertext Processor