PHP stands for Preprocessor in Hypertext. It is a recursive acronym, but understanding that isn’t very necessary. More important than what it stands for, is what it is. PHP is the language for open-source, server-side scripting. There are three elements in that description and we are here to provide a general understanding of these.

Next, PHP is the language that is open source. This means that, unlike private and licensed source codes, the creation and use of source code are available to the public. This effectively allows anyone to change and use it without charging any related fee. PHP Association produces and manages PHP, and developers or companies do not need to pay the company a licensing fee to use the language.

Second, PHP is a language used for scripting. A scripting language is syntactically and semantically similar to any other programming language, as it is usually derived from more complex programming languages. PHP is used to write scripts programmed to execute complex tasks, which are automated commands. This makes PHP ideally suited for dynamic web pages creation, which is where PHP is often used. Zend is the principal PHP scripting engine.

Lastly, PHP is a server-side scripting language that works. PHP retrieves data from the server on the back end of a system and then returns that information to the browser, embedded in HTML code so that the browser can read and display it.

Web development can be a frenzied operation, particularly when one lacks the resources necessary to get started. We chose PHP as the base language for our work in creating web applications. In conjunction with a PHP framework, we use this to ensure that the PHP web applications that we are building are fast, scalable, easy to use, and offer superior performance.

We at softieons technologies work on website development as per the customer’s requirements.