PHP - What is it?
PHP is a programming language that web pages are written.
- Under the server-side programming languages is PHP, with approximately 80% (as of June 2015), the most widely used. Server-side means that the language can only perform actions on the Server: you can build, for example, Connections to a database or files on the Server delete.
- A HTML-file, you can easily convert in PHP. You need to the HTML-file .php save. This PHP file you can upload without the actual PHP Code on your Server, and call. The output is unchanged.
PHP - what is it?
PHP - the programming language is used
- PHP can be used to process user input. You want to install on your Website such as a contact form, the inputs need to be processed further. With pure HTML this is not possible. With PHP you can check, for example, whether all the fields have been filled in and in case of success, a Mail.
- If you want to retrieve content from a database, it PHP. You want to program, for example, a news site, you can save your texts in a database and then with PHP to the desired Places in your HTML Code output. You don't have to create for each article a single HTML file and be able to implement Changes much faster.
PHP as a programming language
The list of fields of application for PHP you can go on and on. If you are looking for the web programming of interest to read what HTML is.
