What is PHP?

PHP originally meant ‘Personal Home Page’ and was created in 1994 by Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. Lerdorf initially created these tools to replace a small set of Perl scripts he had been using to maintain his personal homepage. Fast forward to today, PHP has become popular as a server-side programming language that is generally used to make webpages and interact with databases.

Why use PHP?

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. PHP can be deployed on most web servers, many operating systems and platforms, and can be used with many relational database management systems. It forms the backbone for popular web frameworks like WordPress, PHPbb, osCommerce, and MediaWiki and has a large community of open source developers behind it. PHP is an excellent path to general web development work, particularly in Linux and other non-Windows server environments.

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How much salary do PHP Developers make?

They can make an easy 25K USD per year up to 100K USD which would require a lot of experience, database knowledge, MySQL Mastery, HTML Master and Javascript Mastery.

Any prior skills to learn PHP?

Programming experience along with C++and HTML knowledge will help you learn PHP much faster.

Can learn more about PHP at:

• Official PHP Website
• PHP Resource Index
• PHP Builder
• Simple PHP Tutorial