What is PHP and Why?

PHP is an HTML embedded scripting language; and stood for Personal Home Page which was created by Rasmus Lerdorf. Today, PHP means Hypertext Preprocessor since handles data before it becomes HTML which stands for HyperText Markup Language. PHP is a server-side code not a client-side code. That means you can’t for example change the size of a window dynamically in the client browser and etc. Click here <http://www.php.net> for more information. The PHP manual is accessible online at the <http://www.php.net/manual> web site.

Use PHP instead of CGI, ASP.NET, or JSP to make a dynamic Web site, because is easier to learn, is specifically for dynamic Web page, no platform dependency, and is the most popular tool for developing dynamic Web sites.