DESCRIPTION OF PHP Presented by: Aruna Rebba
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What is PHP? PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is an open – source, reflective programming language. Originally designed as a high level scripting language for producing dynamic web pages. Used mainly in server side application software.
History of PHP • First version of PHP – designed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 as a set of Web Publishing macros. • Next release of PHP 3 launched in June 1998. • In May 2000 – PHP 4 powered by Zend Engine 1.0 was released. • In July 2004 – PHP 5 was released powered by Zend Engine II.
Why PHP? • PHP runs on different platforms like Linux, Windows, Unix. • PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today like apache. • PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side.
Syntax • PHP Primary acts as a filter which takes a file containing text and special PHP instructions and converts it to another form for display. Out put: Hello, World!
Data Types Integer Double String Boolean Object Array
USAGE PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP Code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be used with a large number of relational database management systems. Runs on all of the most popular web servers and is available for many different operating systems. It provides a command line interface as well as bindings to GUI libraries.
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