Basic Overview of PHP | How PHP works

Definition of PHP

PHP stands for “Hypertext Preprocessor”. It is an open-source scripting language and a powerful tool. It is widely used for creating dynamic websites, interactive page content.

Before getting started the introduction to PHP, it is quite necessary to know the basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT. If you have the idea of these three things then you can continue with PHP easily. We will discuss HTML,CSS,JAVASCRIPT later on.

How it is used| Uses of PHP

• PHP is mostly used language for websites all over the world nowadays. Most of the websites are made with WordPress and WordPress has a large number of plugins and these plugins are made in PHP.
• World’s biggest social media network Facebook which is run by PHP.
• PHP is used to create application software like stock management, inventory management, billing software, and custom application, etc.

How PHP works

PHP works with its file system and those files can contain text, HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP Code, and have the “.php” extension. PHP codes are executed on the server and the output is displayed to the browser as plain HTML. We can execute PHP scripts online which is a web server and offline…