Web Programming: Unit 2: Introduction To PHP
Web Programming: Unit 2: Introduction To PHP
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INTRODUCTION TO PHP
PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. PHP is the widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP. PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML code. The PHP syntax is very similar to Perl and C. PHP is often used together with Apache (web server) on various operating systems. It also supports ISAPI and can be used with Microsoft's IIS on Windows.
INTRODUCTION TO PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language What u should already know?
HTML Some scripting knowledge
WHAT IS PHP?
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor PHP is a server-side scripting language, like ASP PHP scripts are executed on the server PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.) PHP is an open source software PHP is free to download and use
WHAT MySQL?
MySQL is a database server MySQL is ideal for both small and large applications MySQL supports standard SQL MySQL compiles on a number of platforms MySQL is free to download and use
PHP + MySQL?
PHP combined with MySQL are crossplatform (you can develop in Windows and serve on a Unix platform)
WHY PHP?
PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.) PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.) PHP is FREE to download from the official PHP resource: www.php.net PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side
PHP VARIABLES
Variables are used for storing values, such as numbers, strings or function results, so that they can be used many times in a script.
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