PHP TUTORIAL FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNER

Name:PHP TUTORIAL FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNER
Difficulty:BEGINNER


ABOUT PHP

PHP is a widely-used and a general purpose scripting language that is capable of
developing first-class and dynamic websites.It is very easy to use or work with as we can embed it into
our HTML codes.Php was designed to make ordinary html codes to perform more.Although php is similar to languages like c and perl.

PHP was first invented in 1995 and its first version which was php3 was release to all in 1998.And now we have PHP5 and soon PHP6 will be released with even more better function and capability.
Php can be run on operating systems like Windows, Linux, Unix, OS

Also,php supports alot of webservers which i will mention a few buth you can get the full documentation on their website http://www.php.net/docs.php

supported webservers:

-Apache {one of the most utilized servers}
-Microsoft IIS
-Personal web server
-omniHTTPd
-and many more

PHP also works with various database to store information gotten from a webpage which we will discuss later.
With php,you can also create a login and signup page which we see on almost all sites on the web.below are some of the supported servers

supported Database:

-Mysql {this is the most used webserver on the web}
-MSSQL(microsoft SQL)
-Postgre
-Oracle
-many more

What php can Do:

-With this great language,you can develope just anything that runs with the internet such as a message board (eg like smf,phbb,etc),you can make a video site like youtube,a gallery like flickr.
-Thats not all that can be done,you can also develope your own yahoo,hotmail and even google.But before you
reach that stage lets first create a helloworld! program.

Next you will know how to install PHP.

NEXT:INSTALLING PHP