[thelist] What is PHP?

{ schaapy } list01 at theparagon.org
Thu Nov 21 14:39:01 CST 2002


> No, I don't expect an in-depth explanation on this list, but if anyone can
> point me to a good, concise source that they like, I would appreciate it.
> I'm especially interested in what kind of things PHP is best at.


Really you should do a Google search. It honestly would reveal a lot of
information. However, You didn't want someone to say that so WHAT IS PHP?

PHP is a language that offers you the ability to store information into a
Database or a language that allows you to do much more than simple
HTML/XHTML can do.

(X)HTML and CSS is for presenting the information while PHP (among many
other languages) allows you to pick what you want to display at when and
where.

For example: You can make your own little email client (like yahoo.com
emails) or make yourself a calendar that can email people a list of people
when something comes close to due date.

You can use it as a CMS (Content Management System) that will store all of
your sites information into a Database and allow non-technical people to
make changes to a website without having to know any code.

Go on any website out there and find something that you would like to have
on your site. More than likely it can be done in PHP.

So is PHP better than Perl, ASP, etc... that's a whole other discussion in
itself. Basically just pick a language and learn it. All the other ones will
fall into place once you've learned one.



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Aaron Schaap
www.theparagon.org






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