Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in
1994 and publicly released June 8,
1995,
PHP, which is short for
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a server-side
interpreted scripting language designed for creating dynamic
web pages and web pages that effectively work with databases. Below are two examples of how you'd print "Hello World" using PHP in a .php file.
<? print("Hello World!") ?>
<? echo 'Hello world'; ?>
Files that include PHP code on a
web server may have any
file extension; however, commonly end in .PHP, .PHP3, or .PHTML.
Also see: ASP,
CGI,
Perl,
PEAR,
Programming definitions
