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what is PHP

subashini Thiyagarajan
what is PHP? please can any one explain me...


what abbrevation? what i can do with that? before PHP which application is fulfilling its place?
Dec 14 '06 #1
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ronverdonk
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You could have a look at the numerous sites with PHP tutorials, from very basic to very indepth. All it takes is some googling. But I'll answer the main part and then refer you to Elisabeth Fulghum, who wrote a long article on this.
PHP, which stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is a server-side embedded scripting language. In non-technical terms: a PHP processor is run on the server (Windows, or a flavor of UNIX). When a page is requested that contains PHP, the processor translates and executes all the commands in the page, and then outputs the result to the browser as regular HTML. Because this translation occurs on the server, a page written with PHP is viewable with any browser, on any operation system.

Like most other scripting languages, PHP can be embedded directly into HTML. PHP code is separated from HTML by Start and End entities. When a document is parsed, the PHP processor only interprets the demarked areas, and outputs the results in the same position.

Ironically, PHP also includes the ability to almost completely separate code from HTML. For larger, collaborative projects this method is ideal because it allows designers to work on the layout of the page without interfering with the code aspects.
See the complete article at Learning PHP: The What's and the Why's

Ronald :cool:
Dec 14 '06 #2
thanks a lot.i got a view about it.
Dec 17 '06 #3

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