PHP Fundamentals

Book excerpt: PHP enables web developers to create interactive websites that connect with databases. So having a facility that conducts PHP workshops is very meaningful, especially for students and technical aspirants who are going through formal training. The web world had been forced to use the very slow Common Gateway Interface (CGI) technology before the advent of PHP. PHP relates to Hypertext Pre-processor. The letter P in PHP is regarded as the acronym meant to recognize the whole term. It is named as Pre-processor since it processes the PHP codes until they are sent to the client. PHP is the language of programming/scripting, and somewhat close to C language. Scripting languages are far more helpful for making websites in place of programming languages that web developers work upon. Programming language demands an advanced range of functions added to the language. Among other programming languages, PHP is possibly the most valued scripting language.