Php (hypertext processor) is a backed high-level language that is implemented as a back-end infrastructure to carry out back-end operations.
The PHP package manager is called COMPOSER. Composer contains packages that are utilized to carry out php-based development activities.
Php is a general-purpose scripting language that is leveraged to develop web infrastructure. It offers both procedural and object-oriented approaches.
Major implementation includes the Zend Engine, parrot, peach pie, and many more. Php code is processed via a php interpreter which runs on a web server.
LAMP stack and XAMP stack are widely accepted server stacks and php runtimes to run PHP code. Php ensures a high level of flexibility in the web development domain and hence it is one of the most popular high-level programming languages among the web developer community.
Php is integrated with HTML, CSS, and JS to develop a full-stack web experience. The front-end tech stack is integrated with the back-end stack to render a full-stack web experience.
Nowadays, PHP is implemented via MVC frameworks like Laravel and Codeignitor; these MVC-based framework makes php-based development well organized, efficient, scalable, and extendable. MVC frameworks are equipped with first-party extensions, third-party extensions and APIs to add extensibility to the source code.
Php is powered by the Zend engine. The Zend engine will compile the php code on the fly into internal format thus acting as an interpreter.Php is an interpreted high-level programming Language. The opcode is cached in PHP with the help of Zend opcache.
PHP is a powerful Language and desktop applications can be written on PHP by leveraging PHP-GTK extensions; with the help of GTK extension user can create GUI-based desktop applications. Php installation comes with a lot of extensions that extend the language capabilities.
RDBMS like MySQL can be connected with php via the Mysqli extension and similar to this many other extensions can be connected to PHP via specific extensions, all these extension files can be downloaded From the official PHP website.
It is easy to run php, start with downloading XAMP and then run the installation, go through a simple GUI-based installation process and once the installation is completed the php will be installed in the main directory.
Note: while php installation the path definition of the environment variables needs to be added so that PHP can be accessed globally, without setting up the environment variable the php can be accessed locally.
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