WHAT IS PHP?
PHP, also known as Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source scripting language that is executed on the server after an HTML/PHP page has been requested, but before it is served to a web browser. Since PHP runs on the server, the website visitor cannot see the code.

Similar to other web scripting, or web application development technologies such as ASP, JSP, and Cold Fusion, PHP is used by web developers to create dynamic web pages by embedding PHP code in special tags with in the HTML of a website.

The difference between PHP and most of the other products that compete with it is that PHP is open source which basically means it is free software. PHP is typically used along with other free open source products such as MySQL, Linux and Apache. PHP is very powerful, and continues to grow because there is a large community of developers that continually volunteer time in order to fix bugs and make PHP a better platform. Furthermore, there are thousands of developers that continually work on and support 3rd party PHP tools and plug ins such as Smarty Template Engine that work with PHP to enhance performance.

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