Introduction
PHP is an acronym that in full stands for Hypertext Preprocessor which originally was supposed to mean Personal Home Page. It is basically a server side scripting language that has HTML embedded and it can be used in the creation of dynamic webpages quickly. When dealing with an HTML document, you will notice that the PHP script is embedded within special tags and during programming a person can be able to switch between HTML and PHP as opposed to depending completely on the big volumes of code to output in HTML. When working with PHP, the client does not have the capability to view the code as it is on the server.
PHP home has the potential of doing absolutely everything that you can be able to do with the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), but its advantages are based on the fact that it is compatible with different kinds of databases. You can as well use it for communication across networks by the use of services like IMAP, POP3, HTTP and others. Much of the syntax that this language uses has been borrowed from other programming languages such as C, Pearl as well as Java with additional special features incorporated in it. In the event that you gain access to a PHP home webpage, your web server will process the PHP code after which it will identify the parts that you can see which include the content and pictures while other parts that you do not need to see are hidden for instance the file operations and calculations. The PHP will then be translated into HTML and thereafter a webpage is send to your web browser.
Features
With PHP home, you can be able to do a lot of things. The following are some of the things that you can do:
- You will be able to create large websites in a very short amount of time.
- You will be able to create a customized user experience that will reflect the needs of the visitors based on the information that you gathered from them.
- You can venture into very many possibilities for online tools and find some of the powerful scripts and examples that will help you do great things using PHP. One place you can be able to find such scripts and examples is at the following url: http://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-programs/
- If you need to set up a website online for e-commerce or have a friend that needs to set up such a website, PHP home will come in handy when creating shopping carts for such websites.
Tips and comments
When working with PHP home, it advisable that the PHP scripts that you intend to distribute use the standard form that uses the PHP as opposed to shorthand form. That is the only way that you can be guaranteed that the scripts will work even in cases where the webpage is being executed on servers that might have different settings. Saving of PHP files that have got PHP code in them should be always done with a.php extension and not .html.
