What is PHP?
- PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.
- It is an open source server-side scripting language which means that the scripts are executed on the server like ASP (Active Server Pages).
- PHP is a cross-platform application that runs on Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.
- PHP supports variety of databases such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many more.
- PHP scripts are embedded in the HTML document and it is enclosed in a PHP tag.
Sample application that uses PHP:
- Joomla
- Drupal
- WordPress
- Moodle
- Magento
