WHAT IS PHP ?

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, with that PHP standing for Personal HomePage [Tools]. This type of acronym is known as a retronym.

PHP is an open-source language, used primarily for dynamic web content and server-side applications. It is often pointed to as the main competitor with:

• Microsoft's C# - Visual Basic.NET - ASP family,
• Sun's Java - JSP
• Macromedia's ColdFusion
• CGI - Perl