PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

(World-Wide Web, programming)

(PHP) An Open Source, server-side, cross-platform, scripting language used to create dynamic web pages.

PHP can be embedded in HTML using special tags like:

<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>

This is stored in a file with a ".php" extension. The web server passes the file to the PHP interpreter which executes the code in the <?php ... ?> tags. This generates ordinary HTML to send to the web browser.

PHP is a recursive acronym.

Latest version: 5.2.3 2007-05-31, as of 2007-08-10.

PHP Home.

Cheat sheet.

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* Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages, In an HTML document, PHP script (similar syntax to that of Perl or C ) is enclosed within special PHP tags.

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