PHP (hypertext preprocessor) is a powerful and
effective server-side scripting language that is frequently used in creating
dynamic web pages for developing ecommerce and other web application. PHP is an
open source, reflective programming language. Originally designed as a high
level scripting language for producing dynamic web pages, PHP is used mainly in
server-side application software but can be executed from a command line
interface or a stand alone GUI.
PHP competes with Visual Basic and C++ as the
third most popular programming
language behind Java and C, based on world wide availability of practitioners,
courses and vendors. Dynamic website is a database driven website where people
often come to get fully customized information and site owners can add needed
information and update the website time-to-time to drag and retain more traffic
to their website. In this highly competitive, constantly changing economic
trend, PHP MySQL has become one of the latest and fast growing technologies for
making dynamic web pages
PHP
combines many of the features of C and Perl in a simple and easy-to-read
format. Programmers have come to consider PHP MySQL as a universal solution for
easy-to program dynamic web pages and it is equally easier to maintain and
update in comparison to other scripting languages. PHP offers exceptional
connectivity to most of the common databases such as Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, ODBC and many others, since it
is an open-source and is available for many different computing platforms
including most Unix platforms and Windows NT/2000, so it is the most
appropriate for today's varied network environments. Web application development with
php is useful for developing outstanding dynamic database-driven web pages
for commercial and other web application.