Thursday 19 January 2017

START PHP

LECTURE #1: About PHP
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
HTLM
CSS
JAVASCRIPT

What is PHP ?
PHP  is an acronym for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”
PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language
PHP script are executed on the server
PHP is easily embedded with HTML
PHP costs nothing , it is free to download and use
PHP is simple for beginners
PHP also offers many advanced features for professional programmers.

What can PHP do?
Generate dynamic page content.
Create, open, read, write, delete, and close file on server.
Add, delete, and modify data in your database.
Note: it is not only used to generate HTML output. We can output images, PDF, files and even Flash movies. We can out put any text, such as XHTML and XML.

Why PHP?
PHP runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, and Unix etc Operating System)
PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache ,IIS, etc)
PHP support a wide range of databases
PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on server side. For learning
PHP we need at least one server because` it is server side scripting language.
We have to option for server. First to purchase web hosting and second make web server in own PC. Second option is preferred. So many software are available for server such as XAMPP, WAMP etc. We need one code editor such as sublime text ,notepad++ etc. In the next section we will discuss about best code editor and why …

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