PHP is easy to learn open-source, server-side scripting language. you can Learn PHP within a week and create own dynamic website and web portal.
What is PHP
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
- It was created by Rasmus Lerdorf.
- The first version of PHP came in 1994.
- PHP is an easy to learn server-side, open-source, scripting language.
- It is used for making a dynamic website & Web portal.
- PHP files have the extension “.php”
Along with PHP, We will learn:
- Mysql database
- HTML
- CSS
- And Bootstrap
And we will create a mini-project.
Because PHP is a server-side scripting language so it needs an environment to execute its code. Hence we have to install its setup for learning to code.
Software requirement for learning PHP:
Please install any one setup from the below list.
- XAMPP: x-os(cross-operating system) Apache Mysql PHP Perl.
- WAMP: Microsoft window o/s, Apache Mysql PHP. This is only for windows operating system.
- LAMP: Linux Operating System Apache Mysql PHP. This is only for the Linux operating system.
- MAMP: Mac os Apache Mysql PHP. This is for Mac operating system.
Links to download the above setup.
To download and install LAMP Server
http://csg.sph.umich.edu/abecasis/LAMP/download/
https://bitnami.com/stack/lamp/installer
To download and install MAMP Server
https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/
To download and install XAMPP Server
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
Free PHP Code Editors
Dear Friends, Code editors help us to write code easily & fast. Code editors provide shortcuts & auto-complete features to complete our code which helps us to complete our code quickly. So please install any one software setup in your laptop/desktop to start coding.
- Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/download
- Eclipse PDT: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.pdt/downloads
- Atom: https://atom.io/
- Notepadd++ : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
- Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
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