PHP is a widely used server-side programming language that’s become increasingly fast and powerful over the years. PHP works well with HTML and databases, making it a great language for anyone interested in building dynamic web applications.

In this course, you’ll be exposed to fundamental programming concepts in PHP. Some basic HTML is helpful before taking this course.

PHP is a server scripting language used for making dynamic web pages. That means PHP allows you to use scripts on a webserver to produce a response customized for each client’s (user’s) request.

PHP is the foundation of:

• Many CMS (WordPress)

• PHP is a server scripting language. This server-side code can be used to fill out HTML templates in order to create a complete HTML document for a visitor. This finished document is called a dynamic webpage.

  Dynamic PHP webpages can deliver a custom set of assets to each visitor, unlike static pages which deliver the same set of assets to everyone.

• PHP can be served such that any browser making a connection to the server can execute the PHP file. This is called server-side scripting.

  From the terminal, PHP scripts can be executed on demand, and the output of the script is logged to the terminal. This is called command-line scripting.