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Introduction to PHP
we will discuss everything about PHP in detail. But before that, let
us first meet Rob, the owner of an ecommerce business who faced
challenges like slow website speed, bad user experience, and poor
security features due to increased traffic and user base.
Developing his websites in PHP can solve all of Rob's problems.
PHP is simple to learn and easier to implement, making it useful in
many ways. It can create dynamic web pages, provide security
encryption, work efficiently with different databases and
programming languages, and is platform independent.
Did you know that 79.2% of the web is still powered by PHP? This
nearly translates to 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
In this presentation, you'll learn about what PHP is, how it works
differently from a conventional web page, its features, major
companies where PHP is implemented, prerequisites on learning
it, and finally, a demo for our first PHP program.
What is PHP?
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, which is an open-source