An Introduction to PHP
The past five years have been fantastic in terms of the explosive growth of the
Internet and the new ways in which people are able to communicate with one
another. Spearheading this phenomenon has been the World Wide Web (WWW),
with thousands of new sites being launched daily and consumers being consistently
offered numerous outstanding services via this new communications
medium. With this exploding market has come a great need for new technologies
and developers to learn these technologies. Chances are that if you are reading
this paragraph, you are one of these Web developers or are soon to become one.
Regardless of your profession, you’ve picked this book up because you’ve heard of
the great new technology called PHP.
This chapter introduces the PHP language, discusses its history and capabilities,
and provides the basic information you need to begin developing PHPenabled
sites. Several examples are provided throughout, hopefully serving to
excite you about what PHP can offer you and your organization. You will learn
how to install and configure the PHP software on both Linux/UNIX and Windows
machines, and you will learn how to embed PHP in HTML. At the conclusion of
the chapter, you will be ready to begin delving into the many important aspects of
the PHP language. So light the fire, turn on your favorite jazz album, and curl up
on the language.
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