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What is the principle and installation of PHP? in view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solutions in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and easy way.

PHP is free and widely used. At the same time, for competitors like Microsoft ASP, PHP is undoubtedly another efficient option.

Introduction to PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language.

What is PHP?

PHP (full name: PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor, or "PHP: hypertext preprocessor") is a general open source scripting language.

The PHP script is executed on the server.

PHP can be downloaded and used for free.

PHP is easy for beginners to learn.

PHP also provides many advanced features for professional programmers.

What is a PHP file?

PHP files can contain text, HTML, JavaScript code, and PHP code

The PHP code is executed on the server, and the result is returned to the browser in pure HTML form

The default file extension for PHP files is ".php"

What can PHP do?

PHP can generate dynamic page content

PHP can create, open, read, write, and close files on the server

PHP can collect form data

PHP can send and receive cookies

PHP can add, delete, and modify data in your database

PHP can restrict users from accessing some pages on your site

PHP can encrypt data

With PHP, you are no longer limited to outputting HTML. You can output images, PDF files, and even Flash movies. You can also output arbitrary text, such as XHTML and XML.

Why use PHP?

PHP can run on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)

PHP is compatible with almost all servers currently in use (Apache, IIS, etc.)

PHP provides extensive database support

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PHP is free and can be downloaded from the official PHP source: www.php.net

PHP is easy to learn and can run efficiently on the server side

PHP installation

What do you need to do?

To get started with PHP, you can:

Find a Web host that supports PHP and MySQL

Install the Web server on your own PC machine, and then install PHP and MySQL

Use Web hosts that support PHP

If your server supports PHP, then you don't need to do anything.

Just create .php files in your web directory, and the server will automatically parse them for you.

You do not need to compile any software or install additional tools.

Because PHP is free, most Web hosts provide support for PHP.

Set up PHP on your own PC machine

However, if your server does not support PHP, you must:

Install the Web server

Install PHP

Install a database, such as MySQL

PHP server components

For beginners, it is recommended to use integrated server components, which already include PHP, Apache, Mysql and other services, eliminating the need for developers to spend time in the tedious process of configuring the environment.

WampServer (server)

Windows systems can use WampServer, download address: http://www.wampserver.com/, support 32-bit and 64-bit systems, according to their own system to choose the version.

WampServer installation is also easy, you just need to keep clicking "Next" to complete the installation.

XAMPP (integration server)

XAMPP supports Mac OS and Windows systems

IDE (Integrated Development Environment, integrated development environment)

Eclipse for PHP (free)

Eclipse is an open source, Java-based extensible development platform (if you don't have JDK installed, you need to download the JDK installation first). For its part, it is just a framework and a set of services for building a development environment through plug-in components. Fortunately, Eclipse comes with a standard set of plug-ins, including Java development tools (Java Development Kit,JDK).

Support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms.

PhpStorm (charge)

PhpStorm is a lightweight and convenient PHP IDE designed to provide user efficiency, deep understanding of users' code, intelligent code completion, fast navigation and real-time error checking.

PhpStorm is ideal for PHP developers and front-end engineers. Provide in: intelligent HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP editing, code quality analysis, version control integration (SVN, GIT), debugging and testing and other functions.

Support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms.

This is the answer to the question about the principle and installation of PHP. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel to learn more about it.

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