In this short article I will talk about a book on PHP, a web scripting language. But before going into the book itself, let's see what web scripting is and what PHP is all about. They were all done using HTML, the standard markup language. Now, in the year 2000, things have changed dramatically.
Sites now provide more than just static, textual information.
All of these features can't be created using only static HTML pages. Scripting languages need to be used to make the connection to the databases, to handle session management and to do all of the other back-end processing required to have good, modern pages. PHP is a server-side scripting language. This means that it is composed of lines of code inserted in HTML pages. The web server processes the code, and its output is printed on the web page.