PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. It was at first created as a simple scripting platform called “Personal Home Page“. Nowadays PHP is an alternative of the Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology.
PHP is an open source server-side language which is used for creating dynamic web pages. It can be embedded into HTML. PHP is usually used in conjunction with a MySQL database on Linux/UNIX web servers. It is probably the most popular scripting language.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language and interpreter that is freely available. A full explanation of all the PHP functions, complete user manual and lots of tutorials can be found on the PHP’s official page.