{"id":4155,"date":"2022-04-18T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:10:30","slug":"what-is-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/web-designing\/what-is-php\/","title":{"rendered":"What is PHP ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">PHP- Hypertext Preprocessor.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is an open-source, object-oriented, and interpreted scripting language that can be executed at the server side. For web development it is well suited.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is used to develop web applications that executes on the server and generates the dynamic web page.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1994 PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdorf and in 1995 it was appeared in market.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It runs on various platforms like Unix, Mac OS X, Windows,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is faster than other scripting languages like Java Server Page and Active Server Page.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is easy and simple to learn.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It handles database,\u00a0dynamic content as well as session tracking for the website.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can set cookies and access variable cookies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It supports several protocols such as POP3, LDAP, SNMP, IMAP, HTTP, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the best language to learn. It is easy to install and setup.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is integrated with a number of popular databases, including\u00a0PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u00a0is compatible with almost all servers used today like IIS, Apache, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"for-example\">For example,<\/h4>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-markup code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-markup code-embed-code\"><!DOCTYPE html><br\/><html><br\/><body><br\/><br\/><h1>Welcome to Wikitechy<\/h1><br\/><br\/><?php<br\/>echo &quot;Hello Kaashiv!&quot;;<br\/>?> <br\/><br\/><\/body><br\/><\/html><\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<h4 id=\"output\">Output :<\/h4>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1282\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php.png 1282w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-390x192.png 390w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-820x404.png 820w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/what-is-php-1180x581.png 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP- Hypertext Preprocessor. 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