PHP
A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
PHP is used for many web content management systems. As of March 2021, PHP was used as the server-side programming language on 79.1% of websites.
In order to speed up execution time and not have to compile the PHP source code every time the web page is accessed, PHP scripts can be deployed in the PHP engine's internal format by using an opcode cache. There is a PHP extension, designed to improve the performance of software applications written in the PHP
The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.
PHP includes various free and open-source libraries in its source distribution, or uses them in resulting PHP binary builds. PHP is fundamentally an Internet-aware system with built-in modules for accessing File Transfer Protocol servers and many database servers, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite, LDAP servers, and others. Numerous functions familiar to C programmers are available in standard PHP builds.