PHP part - One

Hi all,

 So I'm going to start my first tutorial with PHP. I know you have lot of doubt about PHP. In this part I'm going to give you introduction about PHP.

   PHP is powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive web pages. It is an open source general-purpose scripting language. PHP can embed to a HTML web pages. PHP is the alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP. PHP is one of most popular web designing language all over the world. PHP is installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers. Software that uses PHP includes Joomla, Wordpress, Concrete5, MyBB, and Drupal.

   PHP created by Rasmus Lerdorf, is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship in 1995. In that time he used acronym for PHP as a Personal Home Page. Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion IIT, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Afterward, public testing of PHP 3 began, and the official launch came in June 1998.On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released. On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II.

   PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to server-side web development where PHP generally runs on a web server. Any PHP code in a requested file is executed by the PHP runtime, usually to create dynamic web page content or dynamic images used on Web sites or elsewhere. It can also be used for command-line scripting and client-side graphical user interface (GUI) applications. PHP can be deployed on most Web servers, many operating systems and platforms, and can be used with many relational database management systems (RDBMS). It is available free of charge, and the PHP Group provides the complete source code for users to build, customize and extend for their own use.


Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

• HTML/XHTML
• JavaScript

From here after we are going start our journey of PHP scripting language. Before you are going to start your journey you must create PHP server, because PHP is a server side scripting language. easy way to create a PHP server is to download a WAMP server. WAMP server is a package which include Apache server, MySQL database software and basic components which help to PHP language. You can download your WAMP server from download WAMP,It is free and open source. Next part is about installation and configuration.

Enjoy !