PHP Full Stack Development

What is PHP?

• PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
• PHP is a widely-used, open source server-side scripting language
• PHP scripts are executed on the server
• PHP is free to download and use

PHP is an amazing and popular language!

PHP is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web!
PHP is deep enough to run large social networks!
PHP is easy enough to be a beginner's first server-side scripting language!

Why PHP?

• PHP runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
• PHP is compatible with all leading web servers (Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare, Microsoft IIS, etc.)
• PHP supports a wide range of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, db2, Oracle Database, MongoDB, etc.)
• PHP is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
• PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side

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.