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.