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PHP as programming language |
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PHP makes it possible to obtain dynamic pages on Internet (man-machine interface). PHP comes from the recursive acronym HyperTextPreprocessor, it is a language scripts mainly used to be carried out by a HTTP Web server, but it can function like any language interpreted in a local way, by carrying out the programs in line of order. PHP is a procedural language having in version 5 complete functionalities of object model. Because of the richness of his library, one indicates sometimes PHP like a simple platform more than one language. How it works:
PHP is installed on the Web server which interprets orders and generates on request HTML pages that the customer ( i.e. no matter who behind its computer, everywhere on earth) will be able to read without needing a powerful computer. The number of users of PHP does not cease growing. One counts today more than 19 million web site using it (http://fr.php.net/usage.php ) , and the language is more and more proposed in standard by servers providers (free and professional). PHP has a very great number of functions, is interfaced easily with external library (in particular graphic) and tools. It interface itself, generally as a native, with the whole of the standards databse in the market. Lastly, PHP is free! (licence GNU LPG !).
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