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It is about More Than Just Code
Wouldn’t describing PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) as a programming language be a bit reductive when you think about it? We must face the facts: PHP is not a simple programming language. It’s a complete ecosystem, with a gigantic community, thousands of contributors, and new features being proposed and released regularly. But not only that: millions of libraries and application programming interfaces (API) are written and launched thanks to PHP. Even many command-line tools are entirely developed thanks to the PHP language. PHP is a whole world on its own. Let’s start by looking at the reasons why PHP is not just a language for writing a website.
These are the topics we will cover in this chapter:
- PHP as ...
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