Core PHP: Introduction (1.0)

Welcome to PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a free, highly popular, open source scripting language. PHP scripts are executed on the server.

Just a short list of what PHP is capable of:
- Generating dynamic page content
- Creating, opening, reading, writing, deleting, and closing files on the server
- Collecting form data
- Adding, deleting, and modifying information stored in your database
- controlling user-access
- encrypting data
- and much more!

Before starting this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of HTML.

PHP has enough power to work at the core of WordPress, the busiest blogging system on the web. It also has the degree of depth required to run Facebook, the web's largest social network!

Why PHP

PHP runs on numerous, varying platforms, including Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and so on.
PHP is compatible with almost any modern server, such as Apache, IIS, and more.
PHP supports a wide range of databases.
PHP is free!

PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side.