What is the Full Form of PHP?

Hypertext Preprocessor

Full Form of PHP in Hindi-

हाइपरटेक्स्ट पूर्वप्रक्रमक

What is PHP?

It is widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for the web development and also can be used into HTML. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The main goal of the language is to allow the web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. Simply, it is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose for programming the language.

What does PHP stands for?

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. The first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called as recursive acronym.

About PHP 5-

The PHP 5 was purposely designed to be compatible as possible with the previous versions, there are some significant changes. Some of these changes include below:

• A new OOP model based on the Zend Engine 2.0.
• A new extension for improved MySQL support.
• It built-in native support for SQLite.
• There is a new error reporting constant, for run-time code suggestion.
• A host of new functions to simplify code authoring.

What is a PHP file?

• It can contain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP codes.
• PHP codes are executed on the server and the result is returned to the browser as the plain HTML.
• This files have extension i.e. ‘’.php’’.

What can PHP do?

• PHP can generate dynamic page content.
• It can create, open, read, write, delete and close file on the server.
• PHP can collect from data.
• It can send and also receives cookies.
• PHP can add, delete, modify data in your database.
• It can be used to control user-access.
• PHP can also encrypt data

Why PHP?

• PHP runs on various platforms like Windows, Linux, Unix etc.
• It is compatible with almost all servers used today.
• It supports a wide range of database.
• PHP is free to use and can be download easily from its official website.
• PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side.

History of PHP-

PHP development began in 1995 when ‘Rasmus Lerdorf’ wrote several of the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs in C, which is further used to maintain his personal homepage. He extended them into his work with the web forms and to communicate with the database and this process is called as implementation of PHP/FI (Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter). It could be used to build simple, dynamic web applications. To accelerate the bug reporting and to improve the code, PHP/FI is used in several forms to make it easier and simple. The PHP was not originally designed but instead was developed organically has led to inconsistent naming of the functions and inconsistent ordering of their parameters

More about PHP-

PHP is a server-side scripting language i.e. designed for the web development but also as a general-purpose programming language. This code may be embedded into the HTML codes, or it can be used into the combinations with the various web template system, web content management systems and web frameworks. coding of PHP is usually processed by a PHP interpreter i.e. implemented as a module in the web server or as a common gateway interface.