Quick notes on PHP - What&Why

What’s php ?

• is a server-side scripting/programming language for building dynamic, interactive Web sites.
• Hypertext Preprocessor, which gives you a good idea of its core purpose: to process information and produce hypertext (HTML) as a result.
• An interpreted language which runs on the server and give the result as HTML back to the client-side.

Dynamic and Interactive!

• Dynamic: a page whose contents can change automatically each time the page is viewed.
• Interactive: responds to input from its visitors.

PHP script process :

Why PHP ?

1. Free, and up-to-date.
2. Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Free-BSD, …etc).
3. Supported by default on the most of whole servers around the world.
4. Can be integrated with all common-servers such (Apache, IIS, Zeus, and lighttpd) which means you can move your scripts easily to other platforms and servers.
5. So, it’s more powerful than technologies like ASP, and ASP.NET. The last written cost expensive (license && hosting) Plus they are related to windows (not multi-platform).

You might need to check this ;

<? php
echo “The reference is [beginning php 5.3] By Matt Doyle” ;
// See you in the next post! Till then, Be well
?>

 

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