PHP and its Features

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. PHP is the widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP. PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML code.

The PHP syntax is very similar to Perl and C. PHP is often used together with Apache web server on various operating systems. It also supports ISAPI and can be used with Microsoft's IIS on Windows. PHP runs on different platforms Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side.