What is PHP

• It stands for Hypertext Preprocessor.
• It is a widely-used, for open source scripting language
• PHP scripts are executed on the server and result is sent to the browser .
• PHP is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PHP Features

There are following Features.

• Simple
• Faster
• Open Source
• Case Sensitive
• Platform Independent
• Security
• Flexibility
• Familiarity
• Error Reporting
• Loosely Typed Language
• Real-Time Access Monitoring

Simple :- It is very simple and easy to use because use of HTML , CSS and JS Code .

Faster : It is faster than other language e.g. JSP and ASP.

Open Source :- You can download free.

Platform Independent :- PHP code will be run on every platform, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows.

Case Sensitive : At the time of variable declaration php are case sensitive, where user-defined functions are NOT case-sensitive.

Error Reporting :- error notice. have some predefined error .

PHP Install

To install in C:\ drive

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• XAMPP

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