what is php | Introduction of php | PHP Tutorial for Beginners to Advance Full Course | Part 8

What is PHP :

PHP is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, that earlier stood for Personal Home Pages.that is embedded in HTML .PHP is a widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP. PHP 7 is the latest stable release.The client computers accessing the PHP scripts require a web browser only. A PHP file contains PHP tags and ends with the extension ".php".

It is integrated with a number of popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Microsoft SQL Server.

It was originally created by Danish-Canadian in 1994

Characteristics of PHP

1.Simple And Easy

2.Open Source

3.interpreted

4.More Faster

5.Flexiblity

6.Platform independent

 

First Version of PHP

1.0 Release date 8 June 1995

 

Current Release

8.0.1 Release date 7 January 2021