- PHP stands for personal home page.
- It is a server side scripting language to developthe dynamic web application.
- The alias name is [ hyper test pre processor ]
The hyper test pre processor from version 3.0
- PHP was developed in 1995
It is a combination of [ c & perl ] language
The first developed PHP is called PHP1.0
The PHP 1. Is not server side scripting.
- PHP was developed by the ‘Romuslerdroff’
Advantages of PHP :
- PHP is Cross Platform [ platform independent]
- PHP is cross server
- PHP is open source
- We can easily embedded vb, ASP, Java e.t.c in PHP script.
- PHP is extensible
- PHP is easily to debg no. of debuggers available to debug the PHP application.
- PHP support object oriented programming concepts
- PHP is providing no. of inbuilt functions.
- We can interact with any type of database using PHP.
- PHP contain ‘MYSQL’ library to interact with ‘MYSQL’ database
- Zend engine is virtual machine or PHP application it executes the PHP application very fast .
CMS[contain Management software]
- It supports diff types & ‘CMS’ software like Joomla,o.s comen, e- commerce e.t.c ….
[all these are open source]
- Zend organization is providing full technical support to PHP programmers and introduce tools like editors, debuggers e.t.c..
[PHP is partially case-sensative]
- It is loosely typed languages [ no need to declare data types at the time of varieable declaration]
- Every varieable should prefix with ‘$’symbol.
- Every statement in PHP end with semi-colon(;)
- Every PHP statement should include with in the PHP style declaration tags.
Every application extension should be ‘PHP’