PHP Introduction - Lecture #1

Hello All... welcome every one. I'm going to start PHP lectures for Very Beginners, who wants to learn PHP from very beginning. No matter if you do not have any basic programming concept. If you follow my tutorials I hope you will surely get some how good knowledge of PHP.

First of all in this our first lecture we have introduction of PHP…

INTORDUCTION OF PHP

Acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), these types of acronyms are called as

`Recursive acronym`. PHP is open source, cross-platform, server side,

Scripting and Programming language especially used for creating Dynamic web pages.

Further we will be discussing these terms one by one.

Rasmus Lerdorf was the founder of PHP. He introduced PHP in 1995. Originally the main purpose of PHP was to have Personal Home Page for every one so firstly its acronym was also Personal Home Page (PHP), later on it became PHP as Hypertext Preprocessor. It’s the only largest Web Development language world widely used.

§      Open Source, this term does not mean that we have code visible to the user but we can know how the PHP language is made what the concepts, documentation is used from PHP.net it’s officially website.

§  Cross-Platform, PHP can run on multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux etc.

§        Scripting and Programming Language, Scripting language means it has a particular way of writing the code. Programming language is rule that we tell a computer what and how to perform a task using some kind of syntax and structure.

§       Server side, To run PHP programs on our system we need a server, Such as WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This is widows based server. XAMPP (X=any of the four Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python also). LAMP (Linux based server Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and so on…

You can freely download any of them server freely depends upon your operating system and install it.

§      Dynamic, means alterable or changeable. We can make changes in our web page at any time from our server.

Thanks Guys. Any thing missing or any question from this topic you can comment below, I will be trying to solve and answer your question.

Our Next topic will be `Installing and Running PHP programs`.

Good Luck J