This article is an introduction to my series of articles for PHP Tutorials for Beginners that will help you achieve your goal of becoming a Successful PHP Developer.
Quite literally, a PHP developer is a specialist who, using the dynamic scripting language called PHP, creates applications, programs, and websites. It sounds easy enough, right? PHP developers are often referred to by more generic titles such as "software developer" or "web developer." PHP developers, however, are only a specialised subset of the position of developer.
Why Learn PHP?
Obviously, you've heard of a variety of programming languages out there; you might wonder why we'd like to use PHP as our web programming poison. Some of the compelling reasons are given below.
- PHP is free and Open Source.
- Compared to other languages, such as JSP, ASP, etc., the fast learning curve
- Huge document about the community
- By default, most web hosting servers support PHP, unlike other languages that need IIS, such as ASP. This makes it a cost-effective decision for PHP.
- To keep up with the latest trends in technology, PHP is regularly updated.
- Another benefit you get with PHP is that it's a scripting language on the server side; this means you just need to instal it on the server, and PHP does not need to be installed on client computers requiring resources from the server; only a web browser will be necessary.
- PHP has built-in support for working hand in hand with MySQL; this does not mean that other database management systems do not use PHP. With PHP, you can also use
- Postgres
- Oracle
- MS SQL Server
- ODBC etc.
- PHP is cross-platform; this means that on a variety of different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc., you can deploy your application.
PHP File Extensions
File extension and Tags In order for the server to identify our PHP files and scripts, we must save the file with the “.php” extension. Older PHP file extensions include
- .phtml
- .php3
- .php4
- .php5
- .phps
PHP was designed to work with HTML, and as such, it can be embedded into the HTML code.
The PHP code is interpreted by the server and outputs the results to the web browsers as HTML code.
We've come to the end of the PHP Tutorial now with this. I hope you enjoyed the article and understood the PHP for beginners. So you're no longer a newbie to the scripting language at the end of this PHP Tutorial.
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