What is PHP?
- It is an open-source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
- Code executed on the server.
- It can be embedded in HTML.
- You should learn HTML before you start learning PHP.
What can PHP do?
- Generate dynamic page content
- Create, Open, read, write, delete and close files on the server
- Collect Form Data
- Send & Receive cookies
- Interact with Different Databases (Eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.)
- Encrypt Data
Why use PHP?
- It’s Free
- Cross-Platform (Linux, Windows, OSX)
- Compatible with Most Servers (Apache, IIS)
- Compatible with Many Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- Large Community
Sample Program embed in Html :
These are the supported Databases in PHP :
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Sybase
- Informix
- MS SQL Server
- MongoDB – MongoDB Driver
- MaxDB
- SQLite / SQLite3
- dBase
Supported Protocols & Wrappers :
- File://
- Http://
- ftp://
- Php://
- Zlib://
- Data://
- Glob://
- Rar://
- Phar://
- Ssh2://
- Ogg://
- Expect://
- IMAP
- POP3
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