I have been interest in the mysteyr of PHP, what the heck does it do and what is it commonly used for
2007-04-19 10:37:40 · 7 answers · asked by aslanokla 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
PHP is a general purpose scripting language, typically used for web applications. It is commonly used in the LAMPS architecture (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP), which is popular because all of its components are free for non-commercial use. Put simply, Linux is the operating system, Apache is the web server (the software that serves data to a web browser, essentially) MySQL is the database that has data in it, and PHP is a method of interacting with that database in order to create dynamic web sites. Think about it as a "programming language for the web", or rather one designed specifically to build websites with.
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2007-04-19 10:43:26 · answer #1 · answered by IRelayer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PHP is a scripting language. It is commonly used to create dynamic web pages. The PHP instructions can be embedded within the HTML, and the server processes those instructions and adds what is generated to information sent to the client browser.
2007-04-19 17:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Ken H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output, however it can also be used for command-line scripting and client-side GUI applications. PHP can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every OS platform free of charge.
2007-04-19 17:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by athiyav2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a Web server scripting language, I personally found it wedges in between good (cross that, Bad) ol' fasioned Perl/CGI and complete frameworked JSP/ASP/.NET in that it has very full of libraries but not tied in any kind of programming environment initiative.
Besides the aforementioned LAMP I know no other de facto framework PHP fell into.
2007-04-19 18:43:12 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It retrives info from a database and displays it on a website it also takes info from a user on a website and puts it into the database.
2007-04-19 17:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by tru_story 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.php is a scripting language for webpages.
go to http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
real good tutorials.
2007-04-19 17:41:55 · answer #6 · answered by Saleen VS Corvette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be used to read Internet databases
2007-04-19 17:42:03 · answer #7 · answered by Elvis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋