PHP

PHP is a server-side and general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. However, now, it stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It's a recursive acronym because the first word itself is also an acronym.

When you open a website on your web browser, for example, https://www.cantertechnologies.net The web browser sends an HTTP request to a web server where phptutorial.net locates. The web server receives the request and responds with an HTML document.

In this example, the web browser is a client while the web server is the server. The client requests for a page, and the server serves the request.

PHP runs on the web server, processes the request, and returns the HTML document.

Advantages of PHP:

• Simple - PHP is quite easy to learn and get started.
• Fast - PHP websites typically run very fast.
• Stable - PHP is stable since it has been in existence for a long time.
• Open-source and free - PHP is open source and free. It means that you dont have to pay a license fee to use PHP to develop software products.
• Community support - PHP has an active online community that helps you whenever you face an issue.