About PHP

**platter007** · Aug 22, 2008, 08:05am

About PHP

PHP is an acronym of hypertext preprocessor. It is a server side language through which we can make a dynamic web page by embedding PHP code into HTML. To run PHP pages you need to have following installation on your system/machine.

OS (Operating System) -> Windows/Linux
Server -> IIS/Apache
Database -> MySQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, MSACCESS, PostgreSQL etc.
PHP -> PHP Installation on System

You can easily run PHP on Windows by installing WAMP server. WAMP stands for Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP and popularly used as development platform next to LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP).

A sample PHP page script starts as follows:
=========CODE BEGINS========

<?php // PHP Begins
echo 'Hello World'; //(echo) Print Output on Screen
?> //PHP Ends

=========CODE ENDS==========

There are various support and tutorials available for PHP. Some popular resources are:
http://www.php.net (PHP site)
http://www.mysql.com (MySQL site)
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP (PHP Tutorials)
http://www.codeplatter.com

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Aug 22, 2008, 08:05am	#1 (permalink) About PHP
platter007 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma:	About PHP PHP is an acronym of hypertext preprocessor. It is a server side language through which we can make a dynamic web page by embedding PHP code into HTML. To run PHP pages you need to have following installation on your system/machine. OS (Operating System) -> Windows/Linux Server -> IIS/Apache Database -> MySQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, MSACCESS, PostgreSQL etc. PHP -> PHP Installation on System You can easily run PHP on Windows by installing WAMP server. WAMP stands for Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP and popularly used as development platform next to LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP). A sample PHP page script starts as follows: =========CODE BEGINS======== <?php // PHP Begins echo 'Hello World'; //(echo) Print Output on Screen ?> //PHP Ends =========CODE ENDS========== There are various support and tutorials available for PHP. Some popular resources are: http://www.php.net (PHP site) http://www.mysql.com (MySQL site) http://www.w3schools.com/PHP (PHP Tutorials) http://www.codeplatter.com