PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) What is PHP? PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a web development language written by and for web developers. The product was originally named Personal Home Page Tools. PHP is an open source, server side, HTML-embedded web scripting language usually used to create web applications in combinations with a web server, such as Apache. It enables the user to embed code fragments in normal HTML-page. It also makes the connection of a web page to server-side databases. It can also be used to create command-line scripts akin to Perl or shell scripts. HTML-embeddedness PHP can be easily embedded within HTML-page. In other words, PHP pages are ordinary HTML pages that escape into PHP mode only when necessary. PHP codes are embedded with the help of canonical php tags. <? php ?> Following is an example- <html> <head> <title> Greeting </title> </head> ...
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