Chapter 2 PHP and Integrated Development Environments
2.1 What is PHP?
PHP is a widely used open source server-side scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be combined with HTML. “Server side” means that scripts written in PHP can be executed by a web server, such as Apache or IIS, with a PHP module installed.
While the acronym PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, it now stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.”
2.2 What is the Difference Between a Script and a Program?
Technically speaking, a script is interpreted whereas a program is compiled, but this is actually not their major difference. There is another more important difference between them!
The main purpose of a script written in a scripting language ...
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