PHP Introduction
What is PHP?
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.
For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.
PHP can be deployed on most web servers and as a standalone interpreter, on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification.
PHP is free software released under the PHP License; it is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP. PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", a recursive acronym.
PHP source code is compiled on-the-fly to an internal format that can be executed by the PHP engine. In order to speed up execution time and not have to compile the PHP source code every time the webpage is accessed, PHP scripts can also be deployed in executable format using a PHP compiler.
What you should know?
PHP is executed on server and it can be embeded within html for example. Create a file named test.php and put it in your web server's root directory with the following content:
<html>
<head>
<title>My First php script<title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td><?php echo "fatalweb.com"; ?> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
