Why PHP??

Why to choose PHP???
1. Open Souce : Free Licence
2. Platform Independence: can run on any different Machines, OS(linux, windows), hardware platform.
3. Server Support: Apache, IIS(Internet Information Services)
4. Database Support: MySQl, Oracle, ODBC, Sybase.
5. Easy Coding

Scripting Language of two types:

Server Side Scripting language


Script Executed on Server(apache or IIS) is Server Side Scripting Languages. E.g PHP(Open Source), ASP .net(Microsoft Product), Coldfusion etc.


Client Side Scripting language


Script executed on local machine is client side scripting languages. E.g Javascript, jQuery.

PHP

PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor or Preprocessed Hypertext Pages is a server side scripting language which is used to create Dynamic webPages