Introduction to PHP

Hyper Text Preprocessor: PHP is one of the worlds known server Side Scripting language। Server Side Scripting means the scripts are executed in a server and output is directed to the client machine। Main advantage of PHP over Microsofts Active server Pages is that PHP is a free platform language। ie. it can be used free of cost in a linux machine. At present PHP supports majority of webservers including is Webserver and Apache which are the known web servers of both the platforms. Installing PHP in a linux machine is little messy when compared to a windows machine. Simple Additions to the IIS web server configuration makes a windows machine PHP enabled. PHP also supports a variety of databases including My SQL, Oracle, MSSQL etc.