PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor. PHP is a server-side scripting language that is embedded in a web page or can be run as script (much Like Perl) from the command line (Full support since version 4.3) ...

The main characteristics of PHP are:

• PHP is web-speciï¬ c and open source
• Scripts are embedded into static HTML ï¬ les
• Fast execution of scripts
• Fast access to the database tier of applications
• Supported by most web servers and operating systems
• Supports many standard network protocols libraries available for IMAP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3,
• Supports many database management systems libraries available for UNIX DBM, MySQL, Oracle,
• Dynamic Output any text, HTML XHTML and any other XML ï¬ le.
• Also Dynamic Output images, PDF ï¬ les and even Flash movies
• Text processing features, from the POSIX Extended or Perl regular expressions to parsing XML documents.
• A fully featured programming language suitable for complex systems development