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PHP Introduction: What is PHP ?

PHP is a server side scripting language, widely used in internet programming. We can develop pages with dynamic content by using PHP. By using PHP we can interact with database servers and manage the page content accordingly. The difference between a static page like HTML and dynamic page like PHP is the way the server interpret the request. Let us take one simple example.
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When ever request comes for a static html or htm page the web server returns the page to the client. Here script processing or execution is not done. Such pages don't have dynamic capability and content is fixed. In Windows server the web server is IIS and for Linux systems Apache web servers are generally used. However PHP and Apache runs well in Windows platform also. This site is supporting PHP on a Linux platform. In the same way the server can run other scripts like ASP, Perl etc. PHP can be downloaded from www.php.net
What is PHP
Incase of PHP pages the server does not return the page directly to the client. The web server runs the PHP engine and the output of the executed script is posted back to the client machine.  Depending on the various input conditions the page content can be changed. PHP can easily connect to MySQL database and this combination is very popular in the internet

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