PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from 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 stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym. The curious can visit Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing for more information on recursive acronyms.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the PHP introductory tutorial. After that, check out the PHP online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the PHP links section.
Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:29 pm
Peter
Joined: 15 Nov 2004
Posts: 9
Location: New Jersey
PHP Intro
Hi,
Your post on PHP is very informative especially for juniors. I appreciate your efforts.
PHP is a great language and very popular. I'm no master of PHP, but knowing C++ makes editing PHP code not too hard.
Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:23 pm
Euler
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Posts: 109
PHP is a wonderful tool for both rapid development and scalable production.
It has a few warts (magic_quotes and register_globals), but they are plainly visible in the documentation. Visible warts are okay because they are avoidable.
It's the invisible ones that turn out cancerous and inoperable because you weren't warned in time.
Eh... this whole skin tumor - language flaw metaphor is giving me a rash...
Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:11 pm
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