PHP Introduction

PHP is a Server-Side Programming Language that use for web development. It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995.

Official website of PHP is https://www.php.net

The full form of PHP is "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".

PHP code is executed on the server.

You should have basic understanding of the following topics before start learning PHP

PHP can generate dynamic page content
PHP can create, read, update and delete data from database
PHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
PHP can encryption and encrypt data
PHP can handle form operations like gather data from files, save data to a file, through email you can send data

To run PHP program, you need to install a local web server in your system.

We can use WAMP & XAMPP to create local server.

WAMP	WAMP server is supported in windows Full form : Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
XAMPP	XAMP is supported in both Windows and Linux Full form : Cross platform(x), Apache(a), Maria db(m), PHP(p), Pearl(p)