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PHP is widely used in web application development. Billions of web applications running on the internet are made in PHP only. PHP requires web server and can be deployed on most of the web servers, operating systems and platforms. PHP provides filter taking input from a file or stream containing text and providing outputs to another stream of data. Though primary purpose of PHP was dynamic pages, however it has proved to be very effective server side scripting language which very effectively helps in providing content from web server to client.

PHP is a powerful server side scripting language and is widely used in creating dynamic web pages. It can also be used from command line and graphical applications. PHP is also known as Hypertext Processor, and can run on UNIX as well as Windows Servers. PHP is widely used in message boards, shopping carts, search engines and much more. Entire sites are developed with PHP only.PHP is used in creating healthcare applications, real estate portals, e learning websites, search engines, website builders, auctions web portals, sites with enormous database. PHP is also used for data mining and data collection purpose. PHP programmers make usage of OOPs concept and generate number of internet pages on the web. Number of frameworks are used , which act as building blocks in design and structure , these are Cake PHP, Zend Framework, PRADO, Symfony etc. The LAMP architecture is quite popular in the web industry as a way of deploying applications.

Using PHP as front end, mySQL is used for backend purpose. MySQL is included in many servers including UNIXs, Windows (95/98/NT/2000) and Macs and frame works like ZEND, CAKE and NEON.. PHP is available under open source license, this means it is free to use and distribute and the user is encouraged to so. The redistribution of PHP source and binary code is allowed without doing many modifications. However while doing so, the copyright statement needs to be present as well. PHP programmer working on PHP, can easily work on any open source scripts available. Some of the open source scripts available for PHP include PHPBB and osCommerce.

smartData is an ISO certified Offshore software outsourcing company involved in offshore software development in PHP. smartData PHP programmers are experts in delivering quality web applications to clients globally. With features like scalable, robust, open source; php is quite popular scripting language with widespread capabilities for web applications to interact on the net.

neha Patel asked:


PHP

PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a computer scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications.

While PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP, as there is no formal specification.          

PHP Quick Start

Javascript

JavaScript is a scripting language used in many websites. A scripting language is a language, which is easy and fast to learn. So is this reference. A scripting language is interpreted in run-time. It is not compiled like other languages as C++, C#, VB.NET etc. JavaScript is a client side language and it runs on the client browser.

Netscape developed it and because of its simplicity it is one of the most known scripting languages. However JavaScript can be also used on the server-side.

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HTML

HTML is a computer language devised to allow website creation. These websites can then be viewed by anyone else connected to the Internet.British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and the World Wide Web in 1990.

The definition of HTML is HyperText Markup Language.

* HyperText is the method by which you move around on the web — by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which bring you to the next page. The fact that it is hyper just means it is not linear — i.e. you can go to any place on the Internet whenever you want by clicking on links — there is no set order to do things in.

* Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicised text, for example).

* HTML is a Language, as it has code-words and syntax like any other language.

HTML Quick Start

CSS

In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to illustrate the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

There are prosperity of reasons to learn and use CSS. The most important reasons to use CSS

1. Flexiblity – Make site-wide layout and formatting changes with a single edit.

2. Reduce code bloat – Streamline the file size of your Web documents.

3. Accessibility – Produce Web pages that can be used by any user, including the visually impaired.