Thursday 25 August 2011

What is php ?

Php is a web development language and stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
PHP is a server side scripting language, which is embeded to HTML. from which we can create dynamic and interactive web pages.

It is fully cross platform means it runs in native or several operting system like unix, windows or on Mac.

Rasmus Lerdorf, a software engineer worked in apache team member is the father of PHP.
First PHP was developed for personal use in 1994 that way he named it as Personel Home Page.In his next version he added the form interpreter, a tool for pesing sql queries.

Zeev  Suraski and Andi gutmans, two Israel programmers developed Zend Engine and PHP3 and PHP4 for server side scripting language.

PHP5 is newly rebuilt object model to bring PHP is object - oriented language  offering support for features such as inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, interfaces, private members and methods and other standard of oop construction.

PHP is open source , Free software and free GPL(General Public Licenses)

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