PHP Tutorials

The term PHP is an acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a server-side scripting language that is used for web development. It can be easily embedded with HTML files. HTML codes can also be written in a PHP file. The PHP codes are executed on the server-side whereas HTML codes are directly executed on the browser.

Example: Simple program to print “Hello world!” message on the screen.

<?php
 
/* echo is a print command */
echo "Hello world!"; 

?> 

Output:

Hello world!

Why we learn PHP ?

It is one of the widely used open-source general-purpose scripting language that is used for backend Development. Apart from this, let’s see why we should learn it.

• Easy to Learn: It is easier to learn for anyone who has come across to any programming language for the first time.
• Free of Cost: Since it is an open-source language, therefore developers are allowed to use its components and all methods for free.
• Flexible: Since It is a dynamically typed language, therefore there are no hard rules on how to build features using it.
• Supports nearly all databases: It supports all the widely used databases, including MySQL, ODBC, SQLite etc.
• Secured: It has multiple security levels provides us a secure platform for developing websites as it has multiple security levels.
• Huge Community Support: It is loved and used by a huge number of developers. The developers share their knowledge with other people of the community that want to know about it.

Learn more about PHP:

• Introduction
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Connect PHP to MySQL
• Form Processing
• Build a Grocery Store Web App using PHP with MySQL
• How to Insert Form Data into Database ?
• How to Upload Image into Database and Display it ?
• Create a Signup form using PHP and MySQL Database
• Generating a QR code Dynamically

Functions Complete References:

• Array Functions Complete Reference
• String Functions Complete Reference
• Math Functions Complete Reference
• GMP Functions Complete Reference
• Calendar Functions Complete Reference
• IntlChar Functions Complete Reference
• Imagick Functions Complete Reference
• Gmagick Functions Complete Reference
• ImagickDraw Functions Complete Reference
• Image Processing and GD Functions Complete Reference
• SPL Data structures Complete Reference
• DS\Sequence Functions Complete Reference
• DS\Vector Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\Deque Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\Map Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\Set Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\Stack Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\Queue Functions Complete Reference
• Ds\PriorityQueue Functions Complete Reference
• Filesystem Functions Complete Reference

Interview Questions and Answers:

• Set-1
• Set-2

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