PHP

PHP Tutorial for Beginners

January 18, 2020 comments off

What is PHP?

  • It is an open-source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
  • Code executed on the server.
  • It can be embedded in HTML.
  • You should learn HTML before you start learning PHP.

What can PHP do?

  • Generate dynamic page content
  • Create, Open, read, write, delete and close files on the server
  • Collect Form Data
  • Send & Receive cookies
  • Interact with Different Databases (Eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Encrypt Data

Why use PHP?

  • It’s Free
  • Cross-Platform (Linux, Windows, OSX)
  • Compatible with Most Servers (Apache, IIS)
  • Compatible with Many Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Large Community

Sample Program embed in Html :

These are the supported Databases in PHP :

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Sybase
  • Informix
  • MS SQL Server
  • MongoDB – MongoDB Driver
  • MaxDB
  • SQLite / SQLite3
  • dBase

Supported Protocols & Wrappers :

  • File://
  • Http://
  • ftp://
  • Php://
  • Zlib://
  • Data://
  • Glob://
  • Rar://
  • Phar://
  • Ssh2://
  • Ogg://
  • Expect://
  • IMAP
  • POP3
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