{"id":188,"date":"2015-07-27T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-07-27T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:11:30","slug":"php-5-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"PHP 5 Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

What You Should Already Know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:<\/p>\n

HTML
\nCSS
\nJavaScript
\nIf you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home page.<\/p>\n

What is PHP?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PHP is an acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”
\nPHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language
\nPHP scripts are executed on the server
\nPHP is free to download and use
\nNote\tPHP is an amazing and popular language!<\/p>\n

It is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web (WordPress)!
\nIt is deep enough to run the largest social network (Facebook)!
\nIt is also easy enough to be a beginner’s first server side language!<\/p>\n

What is a PHP File?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PHP files can contain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code
\nPHP code are executed on the server, and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML
\nPHP files have extension “.php”<\/p>\n

What Can PHP Do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PHP can generate dynamic page content
\nPHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
\nPHP can collect form data
\nPHP can send and receive cookies
\nPHP can add, delete, modify data in your database
\nPHP can be used to control user-access
\nPHP can encrypt data
\nWith PHP you are not limited to output HTML. You can output images, PDF files, and even Flash movies. You can also output any text, such as XHTML and XML.<\/p>\n

Why PHP?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PHP runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
\nPHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
\nPHP supports a wide range of databases
\nPHP is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
\nPHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What You Should Already Know Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following: HTML CSS JavaScript If you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home page. What is PHP? PHP is … <\/p>\n

Read More \u27e9 <\/div>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}