PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
Great web development programming language. Easy to learn, stable, free and fast. Support community is huge and there lot of examples on the erb for it.
2) Robc on 2009-10-20
The backend for this website and most of my work is done in PHP, this is a great language.