A PHP beginners Tutorial

What is PHP? PHP originally stood for Personal Home Pages. PHP is now a recursive acronym that 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. PHP is open source and free to download PHP files are returned to the browser as plain HTML Why PHP? PHP runs on different platforms (windows, Linux etc) PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS etc) PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side What you need for PHP? Just download WAMP Server (on Windows) or LAMP (on Linux) and install. It will not only installs Apache, MySQL and PHP on windows machine but will also configure these softwares. It provides you an easy to access interface to run and host PHP files.