PHP (originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page) is a server side scripting language. It’s especially suitable for web development and can be embedded into HTML, but is also used as a general purpose programming language. It was created in...
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a server-side scripting language that’s used primarily for web development. It can be embedded directly into HTML, used with web templates, content management systems (CMS) and even frameworks. The code itself is...
Easy to Learn Like all programming languages, there’s some initial investment of your time and energy required to learn PHP. With all things considered, though, PHP is relatively easy to learn, even if you have no prior knowledge of programming....
Originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a general-purpose programming language that’s commonly used in the deployment of server-side scripts. It’s powered by the open-source platform Zend Engine, and can either be embedded directly into HTML or...
Right before the unveiling of Hack, Facebook developers Julien Verlaguet and Alok Menghrajani wrote on the company’s engineering blog. Their words were “Every PHP programmer is aware of the day to day tasks that can be tricky or cumbersome.” So...
Created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a popular server-side scripting language that’s commonly used for web development. If you’re new the world of PHP, you may encounter messages embedded into the code. Known as “comments,” they...
The popular content management system (CMS) that now powers roughly 25% of the entire Internet has switched from a PHP user interface to JavaScript interface. WordPress developers made this announcement earlier this month, saying that after 12 years it was...
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a server-side scripting language and general-purpose programming language that’s used primary in web development. According to Netcraft, it’s used on more than 244 million websites spread across 2.1 million unique IP addresses,...
Being the torchbearer of web development for so long, it does not surprise me one single bit when I notice the exponential growth in PHP enthusiasts all over the world. With enthusiasm comes the curiosity of learning more, and with...
In our last blog post, we discussed how $_GET can be used to deliver user data from a HTML form to a PHP file. In this blog post, we will discuss about the other method to perform the same operation,...