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PHP seminar
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PHP seminar
PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor
Originally called “personal Home page Tools”
Open-source, server-side scripting language
Used to generate dynamic web-pages
PHP scripts reside between reserved PHP tags
This allows the programmer to embed PHP scripts within HTML pages
What is PHP
Interpreted language, scripts are parsed at run-time rather than compiled beforehand
Executed on the server-side
Source-code not visible by client
‘View Source’ in browsers does not display the PHP code
Various built-in functions allow for fast development
Compatible with many popular databases
Advntages of php
PHP is an open source S/W .
Provide fast execution comparison to others.
Support oops concept
Support cross platform.
Light weight S/W.
Free to download and use.
What does PHP code look like
Structurally similar to C/C++
Supports procedural and object-oriented paradigm (to some degree)
All PHP statements end with a semi-colon
Each PHP script must be enclosed in the reserved PHP tag