Introduction to PHP

Module 1
 Origins and Uses of PHP
 Overview of PHP
 General Syntactic Characteristics
 Primitives
 Operations and Expressions
 Output
 Control Statements
 Arrays
 Functions
 Pattern Matching
Introduction
 Origins and Uses of PHP

 PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, a member of

the Apache Group,2 in 1994.
 In 1995 he developed a package called Personal
Home Page Tools, which became the first publicly
distributed version of PHP.
 Originally, PHP was an acronym for Personal Home
Page. Later, its user community began using the
recursive name PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which
subsequently forced the original name into obscurity
Uses of PHP