Recursive Acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Introducation - PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Features - i. It can communicate with database, collect form data, send, receive cookies. In addition to output html pages, it can output images, pdf, flesh movies, text, xml file. ii. It supports a wide range of databases thru db specific extension (mysql), ODBC, PDO. iii. It can support for talking to other services using protocols such as - LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and countless others. PHP has support for instance of Java objects and using them transparently as PHP objects. iv. Run on a wide range of os (win, linux, mac, …) and many servers like apache, IIS. v. Support both procedural and OOPs. History - PHP as it's known today is actually the successor to a product named PHP/FI. FI stands for form interprator. Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to make his dynamic resume in c language. In Jun 1995, he released his source code to public for further development and improvement. Later it becomes PHP. It support database communication. Its latest version php 7.3 released on 6-12-18. It support Unicode character set. Installation – It can be freely downloaded from www.php.net. It is server side scripiting but can be used for command line scripting at system prompt (# in linux of dos prompt in windows). To run php three things are required – Php Parser (CGI server module), Web Server (apache, iis (only for windows) ), browser.
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