What is PHP?

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. It was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994; The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Useful Links:

• PHP Manual
• PHP Tutorial on W3C School
• PHP - The Right Way
• Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?