PHP is a widely-used open source scripting language originally designed for web development that can now be used for general programming. It allows web servers to generate dynamic page content, interact with databases, and more. Common uses of PHP include collecting form data, sending and receiving cookies, modifying database data, and controlling user access.

1. Prepared by: Robilyn B. Pataras

3. - created by Rasmus Lerdorf in
1994. It’s currently
maintained by the PHP
Development Team.
- PHP originally stood
for Personal Home Page.

4. - However, now, it stands for
Hypertext Preprocessor
- It’s a recursive acronym
because the first word itself
is also an acronym.

5. 1. Domain-specific
2. General-purpose

6. - can run on all major
operating systems,
including Linux, Windows,
and macOS.

7. PHP is quite flexible. It’s
not just limited to
processing HTML. PHP
has built-in support for
generating PDF, GIF,
JPEG, and PNG images.

8. One notable feature of
PHP is that it supports
many databases, including
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS
SQL, db2, Oracle
Database, and MongoDB.

10. ❑Simple
❑Fast
❑Stable
❑Open-source and free
❑Community support

11. ❑ generate dynamic page content
❑ create, open, read, write, delete,
and close files on the server
❑ collect form data
❑ send and receive cookies
❑ add, delete, modify data in your
database
❑ used to control user-access
❑ encrypt data

12. Cookies (often known as
internet cookies) are text
files with small pieces of
data — like a username and
password — that are used to
identify your computer as you
use a network.

24. Open the web browser and
navigate to the following URL:
http://localhost/. If the installation is
completed successfully, you’ll see
the welcome screen of the XAMPP.