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What is PHP?

PHP stands for Personal Home Page and also has alias name Hypertext Preprocessor.
PHP is a server side scripting language implemented by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 using C and Perl technologies.
PHP code is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent to the browser. By using PHP you can create dynamic website, enterprise applications.
PHP is open source software and free to download. PHP is maintained by Zend organization.

PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)
PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, Tomcat, IIS, etc.)
PHP is supports all databases. PHP 5.0 is providing MySQL library to interact with MySQL Database.
PHP is open sources and free to download.
PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side.
PHP supports object oriented programming concepts.
PHP supports many content management systems like JOOMLA, DRUPAL, Wordpress etc...
PHP execution is very fast.
PHP is very easy to understand and develop.

<?php

echo 'Hello World!';

PHP programs are saved with .php extension. PHP programs can be written using any editor, such as - Notepad, Notepad++, eclipse, etc.

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