In this slide, I have shown you what is PHP.

1. - Morshedul Arefin

2.  PHP is hypertext preprocessor
 A scripting language
 Mainly used for web development
 Server side language

3.  Open Source
 Easy to learn
 Beginner Friendly
 Powerful (simple to complex website)
 Object Oriented
 Has great frameworks – Ex: Laravel
 Connects with 3rd party api
 Cross Platform – Windows, Linux, MAC
 Syncs with all Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL,
MongoDB, SQLite
 Web Servers – Apache, IIS etc.
 Community Support

4.  Company or Blog website
 Learning management system (LMS)
 Content management system (CMS)
 Ecommerce
 CRM
 Inventory management system
 Social media platform

5.  Facebook
 Wikipedia
 Slack
 Etsy
 Mailchimp
 Yahoo
 WordPress
 Drupal

6.  No. According to PHP usage statistics
 PHP is used by 78.9% of all websites
(according to W3Techs data).
 Almost 8 out of every 10 websites that you
visit on the Internet are using PHP in some
way.

7.  HTML (Basic)
 CSS (Basic)
 Javascript (Basic)
 Bootstrap (It will be helpful if you know)

8.  Desktop or Laptop Computer
 Processor: x86 or x64
 RAM : 512 MB (minimum), 1 GB
(recommended)
 Operating System: Windows (Any version),
Linux or MAC
 Hard disk: up to 200 MB of available space
may be required

9.  Code Editor – Notepad++, Sublime Text, VS
Code, Atom, PHPStorm, Netbeans etc.
 Local Server – xampp, wampp etc.
 Web Server – Any kind of hosting (to make
the application live)
 Browser – Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc.