Welcome to the very first tutorial of PHP. In this chapter i will be giving an brief introduction to php language.
- What is PHP?
- PHP is a server side scripting language just like ASP & unlike c, java etc. The script is executed on the server side & is shown as HTML on the client side thereby hiding the original source code.
- PHP is a loosely typed language as we don't need to specify a data type while creating a variable like c#, c etc. We just create a variable & assign it integer value.
- PHP is an Compiled language after PHP4.
- It is an Open source software which supports various Platforms like Windows, Unix, mac etc.3
- PHP/Apache is pre-installed in OS X.
- It Supports various databases like MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.
- PHP is a loosely typed language as we don't need to specify a data type while creating a variable like c#, c etc. We just create a variable & assign it integer value.
- PHP is an Compiled language after PHP4.
- It is an Open source software which supports various Platforms like Windows, Unix, mac etc.3
- PHP/Apache is pre-installed in OS X.
- It Supports various databases like MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.
