Research & Documentation 01 Php History

History of PHP

Who and Why PHP

PHP was created by a man named Rasmus Lerdorf and is regarded as the "Father of PHP". PHP was developed in 1994, first being designed to work as a set of tools for tracking visits to Rasmus's online resume. Eventually, PHP became a server-side-scripting-language for web development and allowing developers to create dynamic content and to interact with databases.

PHP Environment

The environment of PHP revolves around a PHP engine, web server and a database server. This can also be known as the AMP (Apache, MySql, PHP) technology stack. PHP being primarily used in web development, can execute many web tasks. Some including sending emails, collecting forms from a site, cookies, data processing, generating HTML content and interacting with databases.

Usage of PHP on the internet

PHP being used for multiple applications across the world wide web for things such as Web Content Management Systems (CMS) for platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, and even Facebook. An important application being E-commerce which PHP is often used to build and manage online shopping for sites that sell products to users. Also, PHP can be used to create dynamic web pages that will change due to a response to a users input like interacting with databases to provide content that is personalized to the user.

Summary

Overall, PHP has of great importance in the web development world, making the work process for developers more time efficient and less tedious. PHP is useful when dealing with scalability due to being able to handle alot of web traffic with out the performance being affected, being a good option for large-scale web apps. Also, Flexibility as it allows the developer to find solutions to meet customer expectations.