PHP Tutorial

PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language. It is similar in syntax to C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly .PHP scripts are executed on the server and return the html or plain text to the browser

There are various reason why PHP is so famous and used in all web development projects. The largest blogging platform wordpress is built over PHP

1) it runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X,Solaris,Exalogic,ibm etc.)

2) it is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache etc.)

3) it supports a wide range of databases. It can connect to oracle,mysql,sqlserver,sqllite etc

4) it is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net

5) PHP learning curve is quite simple and we can use it quite efficiently as a language of website

HTML and CSS:

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the language to support HTML and make it look better.