Quick glance at PHP
For those of you browsing on this page and are not so knowledgeable about computer programming and whatnots, here is a bird’s eye view on PHP.
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a computer scripting language basically intended to generate dynamic web pages. It can be derived from a command line interface or in independent graphical applications though focally, it is applied in server-side scripting.
The person behind the making of PHP is Rasmus Lerdorf. He designed this program in 1995. However it is now The PHP Group that acts as the de facto standard for PHP and is considered as a free software by the Free Software Foundation.
PHP, embeddable into HTML, has major use for all purposes in scripting language for web development. Operating on a web server, PHP code acts as the input and building web pages is the output. As a free software, it can be utilized in web servers on approximately all operating systems and platforms.