What is PHP?

[admin]

PHP is a server side scripting lanuage, mainly used for creating dynamic web sites.

- PHP have a similar syntax of C Language.
- PHP is Free Open Source software.
- PHP can run on Both Linux and Windows.

For more information, visit

http://www.php.net

[Guttu]

Thanx for the new forums
will be usefull

[indianbaba]

thanks for the new forum.
Thanks for the info.

[shaymoria]

it has a strong tools of image proccessing.

this is not exist on ASP .NET

therfeore you can write an application to the web that make operations

in real time.

PHP has generated by 2 israeli's and it open source.

bery easy to learn

[admin]

asp.net is good, but you have to pay for components for additional functionality. Same functions available on PHP free of cost. Also you need Windows server to run ASP.NET properly. For servers, i like Linux/FreeBSD.

[shan44]

Can u start a topic to discuss about php programming. I have some doubt in php. if any one is there it would be geatefull to me.

thanks,

[admin]

shan44, you can ask your doubts in this forum. Just create a new thread, may be many of the users can help you.

[eli86]

What is php???
PHP : PHP Hypertext Processor

What can PHP do?
Anything. PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting,

There are three main fields where PHP scripts are used.

Server-side scripting :
This is the most traditional and main target field for PHP. You need three things to make this work. a webserver and a web browser. You need to run the webserver, with a connected PHP installation. You can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page through the server.

Command line scripting :
You can make a PHP script to run it without any server or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler (on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks.

Writing client-side GUI applications :
PHP is probably not the very best language to write windowing applications, but if you know PHP very well, and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way.

[ftvfatboy]

can any one can expand php and explain relationship between php and mysql

[admin]

PHP stand for Personal Home Page creator, it was the name when PHP was first introduced, it allow webmasters to create form mail, guest book etc... easily.

MySQL is a fast database. So it got married with PHP. There is no other ralation. PHP support other databases, but PHP, MySQL combination is very popular.