PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor


PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

(World-Wide Web, programming)(PHP) An Open Source,server-side, cross-platform, scripting language used tocreate dynamic web pages.

PHP can be embedded in HTML using special tags like:

Hello World'; ?>

This is stored in a file with a ".php" extension. The web server passes the file to the PHP interpreter which executesthe code in the tags. This generates ordinaryHTML to send to the web browser.

PHP is a recursive acronym.

Latest version: 5.2.3 2007-05-31, as of 2007-08-10.

PHP Home.

Cheat sheet.