What is PHP and Full form of PHP ?

July 28, 2010

Full form of PHP is Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP is the most popular and widely used server side scripting language for web development. It is used to make the Dynamic pages in websites.

Rasmus Lerdorf was the creator of PHP in 1995.

PHP codes are embedding in HTML source codes for making the page dynamic. PHP can deal with most of the requirements in web development like Database, File handling, String operations, Arrays, Graphics, File Uploads, Data processing etc.

PHP can be used in any operating system with a web server Supports PHP. Apache web server is one of the popular web server dealing with PHP + MySQL. Moreover PHP is absolutely free to use.

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6 Responses to What is PHP and Full form of PHP ?

  1. admin on July 28, 2010 at 10:06 am

    Post will be useful for those searching for “PHP stands for” and “full form of PHP”

  2. Binu on July 31, 2010 at 2:24 am

    Whats this Dynamic page means ? I know only html pages and creating with front page.

  3. Binu on July 31, 2010 at 2:25 am

    Whats the full form of HTML ?

  4. Schowe on July 31, 2010 at 2:27 am

    Full form of HTML is “Hyper Text Markup Language.”

  5. priya on July 31, 2010 at 2:28 am

    I love PHP . Really interesting to code with it. And enough information and resources available

  6. Tuttu on August 2, 2010 at 1:20 am

    Is PHP a Software or Programming Language ? Is there any difference between Scripting Language and Programming Language ?

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