Developing
responsive websites with complete content control and scalability using raw PHP.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web
development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus
Lerdorf in 1994; the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP
Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the
recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
PHP code is
usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module,
a daemon, or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable. On a web server,
the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code – which may be any type of
data, such as generated HTML or binary image data – would form the whole or
part of an HTTP response.
Various web template systems, web content management
systems, and web frameworks exist which can be employed to orchestrate or
facilitate the generation of that response. Additionally, PHP can be used for
many programming tasks outside of the web context, such as standalone graphical
applications and robotic drone control. Arbitrary PHP code can also be
interpreted and executed via a command-line interface (CLI).
