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What is PHP? • PHP: PHP Hypertext preprocessor • An HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. • PHP.net
What is PHP Broken Down • PHP • P = PHP • H = Hypertext: html, hypertext markup language • P = Preprocessor: Preprocesses the code before sending it to the server
Basic Understanding • Open source, web based processing language • Allows web developers to design dynamic websites that interact with databases • To describe what a PHP page is, you could say that it is a file with the extension .php that contains a combination of HTML tags and scripts that run on a web server. • Server scripting language • Writing commands to the server