PHP is the popularly used server-side scripting language majorly used for the process of web development and gets the recursive expansion, ‘PHP: Hypertext Processor’. Web developers use PHP by embedding it in the HTML documents which will have instructions on how or when to process, display, or interact with certain codes on what condition. PHP files end with an extension .php and are executed in the server.
WHY
Because PHP is free, open source and easy to understand. It is also trusted and used by many popular websites. Famous places where PHP is used include its usage behind WordPress (biggest blogging system) and Facebook (largest social network). PHP is supported in almost all servers and can run efficiently on all major platforms such as Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X. The Language has enough ability to be used to communicate with the database, manage files in the server, send cookie and receive them, accept form data and more.
HOW TO
When hearing about PHP, there will be a lot of ‘how to’ questions comes in the minds of beginners and the rest of this article tend to answer atleast one of such questions.
How to Learn?
PHP is free that you can download it from its official website for free and start experimenting on your own by referring the number of high quality online guides and tutorials on PHP. Downloading PHP is not a necessity, you can just play with it online and those tutorials will guide you. Or you can go for paid online teaching websites like Lynda.com. And another popular way is to join the courses offering php training in Chennai or in your city. Reviewing the institutes before joining may help choose the right academy.
RESOURCES (BONUS)
Here are few resources for beginners to easily get started on PHP.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/ - Simple, easy to understand tutorial for PHP from the world’s largest web developer site.
http://stackoverflow.com – Question and Answer site for developers where experts share their knowledge for free on topics like HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.
http://www.killerphp.com/php-videos/ - Video tutorial on PHP for beginners
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/php - Another popular tutorial site for beginners to learn PHP and other stuffs.
About Author Bio:
This is Ajeesh Kumar, I am a trainer working for a leading PHP Training Institute in Chennai and I love programming. My hobby is to code code and code
