Introduction to PHP

Lets start to have a close look about PHP. I am going to give PHP tutor here on whatever i am learning in this. Just go throught my articles here and let me know if you have clarification on the same.

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is mostly in the internet to desing the dynamic websites. Static pages are desinged only by using HTML language. Static pages just show their text and images in the browser whereas dynamic pages are used to feed the information in the database and you can write the program to access the database and shows to however you like it.
Php stores its file in .php extension. The Webservers looks for .php extenstion and excutes its files. Php is a combination of Cobol, Basic, and C languages comments. Its better you know about HTML too. Because HTML tages are used in between the php codes.

Generally all programming codes are text. To execute these you need some kind of compiler or interpreter. Here also you need some kind of compiler which executes these codes, Those are called web servers. YOu can get opensource softwares Apache Server, PHP, MySQL to make your server as a webserver. But you need to integrate all three which you need to know about the configuration.

There are free softwares available in the internet which integrates all three are WAMP, XAMP etc in the internet. You can just download and make use of it. Apart from Apache server, people also uses Personal Web Server(PWS), Internet Information Service for Web server.

Once wamp installed on your computer you can find c:\wamp\www folder. This folder is used to have all the written programming. You can use the http://localhost to access the website available in it.