What is PHP?
- PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor"
- PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language
- PHP scripts are executed on the server
- PHP is free to download and use
What Can PHP Do?
- PHP can generate dynamic page content
- PHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close
files on the server
- PHP can collect form data
- PHP can send and receive cookies
- PHP can add, delete, modify data in your database
- PHP can be used to control user-access
- PHP can encrypt data
Set Up PHP on Your Own PC
However, if your server does not
support PHP, you must:
- install a web server
- install PHP
- install a database, such as MySQL