PHP, which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, is a open source general purpose scripting language that is typically used for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
The server side scripting language is designed for web development, but it can also be used as a general purpose programming language.
With the ability to embed it into HTML code, or to use it in a combination with various web translate systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks, PHP code is a popular choice for many developers.
Why should you use PHP? Find out on the next page.
It’s popularity can partly be attributed to its wide deployment range across most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform, free of charge.
In the most recent release of PHP there were numerous changes such as the behaviour of the foreach statement being changed to be more predictable.
Additional changes include support for hexadecimal number support in some implicit conversion from string to number types being removed.
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