PHP - Hypertext PreProcessor.
PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive websites. It is widely-used as an alternate to ASP. PHP is perfectly suited for Web development and can be embedded directly into the HTML programming code.
PHP is used where data processing is required, there by the scripting language access and process data from the database, and displays the result.
To give an example. Say we have marks of 100 students in a file or database. We have to show the marks to students depending on who requests for it. Here we cannot have 100 html files. Here php language is handy. It will process the db/file data and dynamically create html files, for example.
<html>
<body>
<!-- php portion -->
<?php
//Here depending upon request
//php processes data and sets it.
//i.e. If person1 requests, person1's data will be set
//If person2 requests, person2's data will be set
?>
<!--php portion ends -->
</body>
</html>
Go ahead with the Hypertext Preprocessor programming tutorial.
As you read more you will understand it well.
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