PHP

PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor

• - Scripting language
• - Created in 1994 (initially as Personal Home Page Tools)
• - Last release: PHP 7 in 2015

Objectives

Automatize the creation of HTML pages

• - File include, Variables, Loops
• - Executed on the server (/JS executed on the client)

Principle of PHP interpreter:

• Input: A PHP Script
• Output: A HTML Page

Today: PHP is the most common language for server programming

• • (+) Very simple to be embeeded (/mixed) within HTML page
  • (-) Sometimes old and heavy for general client/server communication