What Is PHP?
What Is PHP? PHP was in development in 1994, when creator Rasmus Lerdorf wanted a better way to administer his personal homepage. It all began as a few CGI binaries that Lerdorf used to build several interesting applications. This in itself isn’t so exciting, especially since early forms of PHP couldn’t even interface with a database! Regardless, Lerdorf started what would become a very prominent web development language. From thereon out, PHP became an open source piece of software that anyone could contribute work on. Over the years developers have added quite a bit of functionality to the language overall. Through all the changes that occurred over the years, we can now describe PHP as the following: Server-Side Scripting Language – In addition to being a scripting language, PHP is a server-side scripting language. This essentially means that PHP runs on the web server end of things (Which is why you should take advantage of our free hosting if you don’t have hosting already!)....