What is PHP?
PHP (Hypertext preprocessor) is programme language wide used in web designing. It is very simple to learn, and once you know it, you can do a lot. When visitor comes to your PHP pages, web server automaticaly process PHP code and determines what will be shown.
Everything else, such as mathematical operations, folder operations, variables, etc. aren't shown to users. That is why user gets generated HTML page without PHP code.
The size of syntax is taken from C, Java and Perla with few unique charatceristics.
The whole thing about the language is about quick and simple writing of dynamical generated pages.
To use your PHP script or page in PHP code, your web server has to support PHP.
Except a few free, most of commercial servers support PHP.
If you wish to try PHP scripts on your computer, there is a solution: download and install programme Xammp.
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