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Ever wonder how fancy sites are made? You know the ones where you can type in information and the page accurately delivers the update messages? Ever wonder how blogs or forums do that? It's in fact quite simple.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded HTML.

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Website pages. Within HTML files, the PHP script (which is like the languages Perl or C syntax) is enclosed inside particular PHP tags. As a result of PHP being embedded within tags, the programmer can toggle between HTML and PHP (which is comparable to ASP and Cold Fusion) as a substitute of having to rely on weighty amounts of code to produce HTML. Notably because PHP is executed on the server side the client cannot view the PHP code.

PHP can perform any task that any CGI program can do, but its strong point rests in its compatibility with many databases types. PHP can also communicate across networks using IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or HTTP.

In 1994 PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. In 1997, the PHP programming language development welcomed other contributors. Most notably Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, reworked the parser from scratch to create PHP version 3 (PHP3).