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PHP Introduction:
PHP is the most popular scripting language on the web. PHP is basically using for making a to enhance web pages. If you can create a login page into the web then easily create through the PHP. you Create a username and password login pages, check details from a form, create forums, picture galleries, surveys, and a whole lot more. If you've come across a web page that ends in PHP, then the author has written some programming code to liven up the plain, old HTML.
The PHP is known as a server-sided language. That's because the PHP doesn't get executed on your computer, but on the computer you requested the page from. The results are then handed over to you, and displayed in your browser. Other scripting languages you may have heard of are ASP, Python and Perl.
PHP is stands for Hypertext Preprocessor , it is server-side scripting language, like ASP. it's supports about all the databases like as MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, Postgre SQL, Generic ODBC, etc. it is the open source software. It is containing text, HTML tags and scripts. And it's returning to the browser as plain HTML.
PHP file extension :
- .php
- .php3
- .phtml
Importance of PHP
The PHP Reduce the time to create large websites. And it's create a customized user experience for visitors based on information that you have gathered from them. To Open up thousands of possibilities for online tools. Allow creation of shopping carts for e-commerce websites.
PHP runs on different platforms like as Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. And using to compatible with almost all servers used today like as Apache, IIS, etc.
Need to get started with PHP:
Basically using on PHP for different different platform then using the file for PHP. The different type platform using for user then using the different servers.
Apple Users
If you have OS X, then try these sites to get up and running with PHP:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/07/apache.html
What you're doing here is getting the apache server up and running, so that you can run PHP scripts offline. Pay particular attention to where files are stored, and to the "localhost" address.
Linux Users
There are quite a few sites out there to help Linux users get up and running with the Apache server and PHP.
Here are three sites that are worth checking out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/wikis/php-tutorial/installing-php-and-mysql.aspx
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/12/0.php
Windows Users
OK, back to Wampserver and Windows. First, you need to download the software. You can get it from here (this site is nothing to do with ours, by the way
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