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PHP is a web programming language in common use on many, many web servers around the world today. It is used to create web-based applications, forums, website management kits and more. This article serves as an introduction to what PHP is and can do.

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Meet PHP: The Web Programming Language
Written by Martin Coleman © 2006.

Many people may have heard of PHP, but not as many will actually know what it is and what its capable of. PHP is a wonderful language that is being used more and more each day, but youll most likely see it on a website. PHP, which stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 who called it Personal Home Page (PHP) Tools and was originally written in Perl. It has since taken on a life of its own headed by Zend Technologies who re-wrote it in C and now renamed its popular definition to the one it is currently.

The PHP language is very fast to work with and ultra responsive. This allows it to be used in creating many full features and very powerful web-based applications, from forums, webmail software to complete web page management tools. The command line interpreter has also allowed users to create standalone applications with and it is very capable of creating GUI applications for any common purpose.

PHP is also familiar. If you have programmed in C, C++, Perl or Java before, then you will pick up PHP in very little time. Thats because...

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