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PHP - What is it?


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By manju - 3/15/2009

When someone visits your PHP webpage, your web server processes the PHP code. It then sees which parts it needs to show to visitors(content and pictures) and hides the other stuff(file operations, math calculations, etc.) then translates your PHP into HTML. After the translation into HTML, it sends the webpage to your visitor's web browser.
By dilettante - 7/5/2009

PHP like ASP was an attempt to create a more productive approach to scripting dynamic web pages than the old CGI script way.

Which came first?  Arguable.  But PHP is still undergoing development and is very popular because of the cheap PHP hosting available.

ASP was sort of stalled when Microsoft turned its back on all things VB and went down the .Net path with ASP.Net.  Even IIS 7 can still support ASP though, as will IIS 7.5 (Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008).