What Is PHP?

PHP is the web development language written by and for web developers.

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. The product was originally named Personal Home Page Tools, and many people still think that’s what the acronym stands for, but as it expanded in scope, a new and more appropriate (albeit GNU-ishly recursive) name was selected by community vote.

PHP is currently in its sixth major rewrite, called PHP6 or just plain PHP. PHP is a server-side scripting language, usually used to create web applications in combination with a web server, such as Apache. PHP can also be used to create command-line scripts akin to Perl or shell scripts, but such use is much less common than PHP’s use as a web language. 

Strictly speaking, PHP has nothing to do with layout, events, on-the-fly Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation, or really anything about the look and feel of a web page. In fact, most of what PHP does is invisible to the end user. Someone looking at a PHP page will not necessarily be able to tell that it was not written purely in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), because the result of PHP is usually HTML.

PHP - MySQL Tutorials

PHP and Mysql are Open source technologies.


PHP is the most popular scripting language to develop web application. Millions of the sites are developed in PHP Language.  For developing web applications MySQL is utilized with PHP Scripting Lanugage.


This tutorials is collection of different resources:


PHP Documentation :: The PHP Documentation is available at online, The manual is located at www.php.net and served up by PHP. 


The PHP Manual is a great resource to improve knowledge / learning  for developing the web applications.


This tutorial is not that manual or even a substitute for it. I am providing a complementary to the manual and expect that you will want to improve your knowledge easily.


In general, you’ll find the online manual to be very comprehensive, covering all aspects and functions
of the language.


In this tutorials, you will get short explanation and real - time examples to develop or implement a functionality.

We will reach the goal by step by step.....