PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is suited for Web development can be embedded into HTML.

Here’s a brief introduction to PHP

• PHP is a High level language,similar to English.
• PHP started life as Personal Home Page tools, developed by Rasmus Lerdorf to assist users with Web page tasks.
• PHP’s syntax is similar to C syntax.
• PHP files can have .php or .phtml or both as their file extension.This can be configured on the Web server.

PHP supports the following databases -

• dBASE
• Informix
• Ingres
• Microsoft SQL Server
• mSQL
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Sybase
• ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)