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Facts About PHP

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What is PHP?
PHP is a scripting language that was designed originally for the production of featured dynamic web pages. PHP has since evolved to include a command line interface ability that can be used in a standalone graphical application dynamic.

Facts about PHP
PHP was designed and developed by a man named Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, however, since then, control of the implementation and script maintenance is now conducted by a PHP Group, a sort of cyber governing body on PHP scripting.
PHP is a free software released under a license called the PHP license, however, this is not compatible with the GNU General Public license or GPL because of restrictions and terms of use for PHP.
PHP is normally used for general scripting purposes, though it is specially suited for web page development and is one of the premier means to embed HTML format. PHP generally runs on a type of web server that is configured to take the script and input it for the sake of creating web page content. PHP can also be deployed on many web servers, and on just about any other operating system or platform for no cost to the user. PHP has been installed on more than 25 million websites and over 1 million web servers.
PHP scripts also are normally kept as readable source code on production of web servers. PHP is compiled at the runtime of the script as it common with other script codes and languages. This makes its read time by the computer much easier.
Accessories for PHP are also available to make this script easier to read and go faster on the computer on which it is installed. These are called PHP accelerators. PHP accelerators provide performance gains by decoding the compiled form of PHP script in the computer’s shared memory to avoid overheating due to under-compiled code.