Dynamic Web Pages with PHP3

PHP is a freely available, HTML-embedded scripting language that lets you embed special tags to create your script right in an HTML file. PHP can be integrated into the Web server itself, eliminating the need to start up a separate CGI program to generate the Web page, which can lead to dramatic performance increases on some systems. This article describes how PHP came into existence, introduces some PHP basics, then shares some useful, instructive scripts to get you started.