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What is PHP ?

Mar 19th, 2008 22:46
ha mo, Joseph Then, Philip Olson, Andrei Zmievski, Tyler Bannister, Nathan Wallace,

PHP is a widely used Open Source server-side general-purpose scripting
language that is especially suited for Web development and can be
embedded into HTML.  Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is
easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as 
a
standalone executable or as a module under a variety of web servers.  
It
has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various
Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible 
via
its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented
and energetic international team.  Numerous open source and commercial
PHP-based application packages are available.
Check out the following :
http://www.php.net/
http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php 
Also, see what Zend has to say : 
http://www.zend.com/zend/aboutphp.php 
This site gives a good background information on PHP:
http://www.osdw.org/PHP_Programming.html
http://www.osdw.org/Various_PHP_Tricks.html
And lastly, the conference slide presentations may help, see : 
http://conf.php.net/
http://www.tantofa.com
http://www.fantofa.com
http://www.mantofa.com
http://www.tanpola.com
http://www.tampola.com
http://www.yamot.com
http://www.mozmar.com
http://www.templatestemp.com