Research Documentation Php History

1R - PHP History

Who and Why PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf created PHP in the fall of 1994 to maintain his personal homepage. He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases.

PHP Environment

PHP is a server side scripting language designed for web development, but also used as a general purpose programming language.

Usage of PHP on the Internet

PHP is generally used for creating web servers and applications.

Summary

In summary, PHP is a type of open-source, server-side scripting language that is embedded in HTML. It allows developers to build logic into the creation of web page content and handle data returned from a web browser.