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    • How to Make a PHP File

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    PHP

    | latest_release_version 5.2.11 / 5.3.1
    | latest_release_date 5.2.11: / 5.3.1:
    | latest_test_version 6.0.0-dev
    | license programming_language [[C (programming language)|C
    | operating_system paradigm [[Imperative programming|imperative, object-oriented
    | typing Dynamic, weak
    | year
    | website http://www.php.net/
    }}

    PHP, or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, to produce dynamic web pages. It can be embedded into HTML and generally runs on a web server, which needs to be configured to process PHP code and create web page content from it. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge."foundations" /> PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.

    PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 and has been in continuous development ever since. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification."history"> PHP is free software released under the PHP License, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) because of restrictions on the use of the term PHP.

    PHP has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can also be used in standalone graphical applications.

    History

    PHP originally stood for personal home page.history /> It began in 1994 as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language by the Danish/Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf.
    Lerdorf initially created these Personal Home Page Tools to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage. The tools were used to perform tasks such as displaying his résumé and reco read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

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