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What is PHP

PHP is an open-source, interpreted, and object-oriented scripting language that can be executed at the server-side. PHP is well suited for web development. Therefore, it is used to develop web applications (an application that executes on the server and generates the dynamic page.).


PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 but appeared in the market in 1995. PHP 7.4.0 is the latest version of PHP, which was released on 28 November. Some important points need to be noticed about PHP are as followed:

  • PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. 
  • PHP is an interpreted language, i.e., there is no need for compilation.
  • PHP is faster than other scripting languages, for example, ASP and JSP.
  • PHP is a server-side scripting language, which is used to manage the dynamic content of the website.
  • PHP can be embedded into HTML.
  • PHP is an object-oriented language.
  • PHP is an open-source scripting language.
  • PHP is simple and easy to learn language

Why use PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language, which is used to design the dynamic web applications with MySQL database.

  • It handles dynamic content, database as well as session tracking for the website.
  • You can create sessions in PHP.
  • It can access cookies variable and also set cookies.
  • It helps to encrypt the data and apply validation.
  • PHP supports several protocols such as HTTP, POP3, SNMP, LDAP, IMAP, and many more.
  • Using PHP language, you can control the user to access some pages of your website.
  • As PHP is easy to install and set up, this is the main reason why PHP is the best language to learn.
  • PHP can handle the forms, such as - collect the data from users using forms, save it into the database, and return useful information to the user. For example - Registration form.

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