To develop a web application or website in PHP, then firstly we have to know about this language.
What is PHP?
PHP is the web development language. It stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It was originally named Personal Home Page Tools. PHP is a very general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development. It is an open-source, server-side, HTML-embedded Web-scripting language that is compatible with all the major Web servers. It enables us to embed code fragments in normal HTML pages. It also makes it easy to connect our Web pages to the server-side databases.
Why PHP?
PHP is free, open source, fully featured, stable, fast, cross platform compatibility, easy to learn, and it plays well with others.
Some points are:--
- PHP can quickly be added to code produced by WYSIWYG editors.
- PHP lends itself to a division of labor between designers and scripters.
- PHP can reduce labor costs and increase efficiency.
What is MySQL?
MySQL is an open source, SQL RDBMS that is free for many users. It is mostly used with PHP, Java, Perl and Python. Databases like My SQL, SQL Server etc. are useful product of modern computing. It is a powerful standards compliant RDBMS that comes in at an extremely competitive price point.
Benefits of Web development using PHP
- It supports multiple platforms.
- It supports various web servers.
- It provides fast development.
- It supports multiple databases also.
- It provides various security levels.