If you are newbie programmer and want to begin a career in web development then you should have a genuine reason to learn PHP programming language. PHP has been widely used by a large group and one of the popular open source programming language which is easy to learn and use. It is supported by a large community. We can also find lots of pre-developed open source frameworks in PHP. Therefore, we can see lots of vacancies for PHP developers.

PHP is a server side scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages and applications. PHP is a widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft’s ASP.

PHP is widely used in web based applications so it would be advantage if you have basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

PHP is an stunning and well-known language!

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

History of PHP

PHP development was began in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C, which he used to maintain his personal homepage. He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation “Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter” or PHP/FI.

PHP/FI could be used to build simple, dynamic web applications. To accelerate bug reporting and improve the code, Lerdorf initially announced the release of PHP/FI as “Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0” on the Usenet discussion group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi on June 8, 1995. This release already had the basic functionality that PHP has today. This included Perl-like variables, form handling, and the ability to embed HTML. The syntax resembled that of Perl, but was simpler, more limited and less consistent.