PHP

By Joe Gardiner Monday, 12th April 2010

PHP is a scripting language the was designed to produce dynamic web pages in web development and is embedded into html source code. PHP can be used on most web servers, and can be used with many database management systems, making it perfect for database driven dynamically generated web sites. PHP is commonly used as the "P" in a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). PHP in conjunction with SQL databases enable web sites to be generated dynamically, and can functions added for use with pre-packaged CMS's such as WordPress. This integration into a "dashboard" enables standard users to make use of the power PHP offers the user.

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