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What You Should Already Know: PHP Is An Amazing and Popular Language!

PHP is a widely-used open source scripting language that is executed on the server. PHP files contain text, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP code. PHP code is executed on the server and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML. PHP can generate dynamic page content, create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server, collect form data, send and receive cookies, add, delete, modify data in databases, and restrict user access to some pages on a website. PHP runs on many platforms and supports many databases, is compatible with most servers, and is free to download.

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What You Should Already Know: PHP Is An Amazing and Popular Language!

PHP is a widely-used open source scripting language that is executed on the server. PHP files contain text, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP code. PHP code is executed on the server and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML. PHP can generate dynamic page content, create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server, collect form data, send and receive cookies, add, delete, modify data in databases, and restrict user access to some pages on a website. PHP runs on many platforms and supports many databases, is compatible with most servers, and is free to download.

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PHP 5 Introduction

What You Should Already Know


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