What is PHP?

• PHP Stands for Hypertext preprocessor
• Rasmus Lerdorf is known as the father of PHP.
• PHP is an open-source scripting language commonly used for web applications.
• It supports databases like MySql, Sybase, solid, Postgres SQL, etc.
• Personal Home is the old name of PHP.
• PHP has borrowed syntax from Perl and C.
• PHP is a cross-platform that you deploy your application in a different number of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, etc.

Common uses of PHP

• It can access Cookie variables
• It can restrict users to access pages.
• It can handle forms.
• It performs system functions.
• It can modify elements within the database

Is PHP a case-sensitive language?

• PHP is partially case sensitive language. The variable names are case sensitive. But the function names are not.

Popular CMS in PHP

• Wordpress
• Joomla
• Magento
• Drupal

Popular Framework in PHP

• Laravel
• Codeigniter
• Yii or Y2i