Introduction to PHP Programming

By PHP Catalyst
2007-11-19


Popoular Features of PHP

Some of the most popular features of PHP are as mentioned below:-

1. PHP works on multiple Operating Systems. Some are Linux, manu Unix flavors, BSD, Mac OS X and many more..
2. Plenty of Web Servers are supported. Some are Apache, IIS, Netscape iPlanet and many others..
3. Use it as a procedural programming or object oriented programming. Choice is yours!
4. Dynamic generation of HTML, PDF, Flash, Text, CSV, XML and others..
5. Support for numerous databases like MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL and many others..
6. Interaction with services like LDAP, POP3, SMTP etc..

PHP comes along with PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) which is like a library of code, procedures for handling error, components which can be reused.

Not only these, but there are many more features and abilities of PHP which you will discover as you go along.

I am sure you are excited by now. Let's begin with PHP Installation. If you already have the required environment for PHP then let's look at Basics of PHP.

Tutorial Pages:
» What can I do with PHP?
» Popoular Features of PHP
» Basics of PHP
» Variables in PHP
» Data Types in PHP
» Expressions and Operators
» Control Structures in PHP
» Functions in PHP
» Declaring Functions in PHP
» Scope of a Variable
» Built-in Functions in PHP
» Handling Strings in PHP
» Printing Strings in PHP
» String Comparisons in PHP
» Manipulating Strings in PHP
» Arrays in PHP
» Types of Arrays in PHP
» Creating Arrays in PHP
» Array Operations in PHP

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