What does a PHP stands?
By baknudz
@baknudz (241)
Philippines
January 8, 2007 11:04pm CST
And how does it differ from HTML? Please share some ideas on this matter.
5 responses
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
9 Jan 07
Where HTML is the standard code used for designing web pages, PHP is a programming language used for making dynamic web pages. For instance, you would use HTML to change your background properties, link and text properties. You would use PHP to include counters, guestbooks, web polls, and other interactive website features.
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
9 Jan 07
Nooo, not quite. You're going to use HTML regardless, but you could use both quite happily. Let me try and explain.
Let's say you're building a standard web page. You'd use HTML, or CSS, to define the background image or color, to change your text color and style, to change the link styles and color, to add images, etc. All of the basic stuff.
Now, say you wanted to add a counter, so you could see how many people have visitted your page. You could use PHP to do this. HTML has nothing to do with that portion.
PHP Includes is a script that many sites find useful. I use it regularly on my own site. What this is ... oh boy .... okay, let's say you have a menu that you want to appear on every page. Instead of having that menu code on every single page, you would have it on one individual page, then call THAT page into the others.
For example ... you put the menu on a page called menu.php and upload it to your server. Then, on every other page you want the menu seen on, you would have a small script that brings that page into it. The benefit of this is .. when you want to update your menu, you only have to update that ONE page, menu.php .... it will appear on every page it's called into updated, but you've only had to edit one file. Understand?
PHP Includes is by far the most used of all php scripts, but php has many more uses.
However, it's completely seperate from HTML, both having their own defined uses.
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@asikjmc01 (107)
• India
9 Jan 07
Personal Home Page. This is an Advanced Scripting Language for site Design.
@arilan (8)
• Philippines
14 Jul 07
In the early stages of PHP, it was once known as PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter. As they released PHP 3 they renamed it to plain PHP, being a recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocesser.
I guess the acronym PHP within the meaning of PHP. might still mean Personal Home Page. http://www.php.net/history
@Jlowe110 (313)
• United States
9 Jan 07
Im not sure what it stands for, but its mroe complex than html. You can do cooler thigns, make it remember things, you can basically do mroe complex code that can do mroe thigns. Mylot is writtn in PHP, using a little mysql. It lets you store information, then the website gets to access it, which lets you login in, and post or money. Its a lot better than HMTL.
@gamers2000 (71)
• Singapore
11 Jan 07
PHP stands for PHP:Hypertext Processor. It's integrated into HTML. What it does is that it runs the script on the server then send the results back to your computer in HTML.
Take this for instance. I want to know the value of x * 5. So,I create a script that calculates that.I upload it onto a server. I open that site in my browser and type in the value of x that I want and send it. The server then calculates what is x * 5,then sends it back to your computer in the form of HTML. The above script can be written this way.
However,when you view source on your browser,you do not see the above. Instead,you would simply see 15. The server has calculated the value of 3 * 5 and sent it back to you in HTML form. =)
@primeinfotech (185)
• India
16 Jul 07
Php is web programmign laguages use in Web based softwares also like CRM, ERP, CMS etc. It has greaty features than any other programming languages. Its so customised language for websites.
Php is server side programming language & Html is markup language. php has many functions while in html dont have any functions.
