PHP or PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a web development programming language, mainly used as server-side scripting language. It is a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages quickly. The PHP language runs on the server-side, which means the execution (read starting) of the scripts, are done on the server where the web-site is hosted. HTML embedded means that you can use PHP statements (read a piece of PHP code) from within an HTML code. PHP files are returned to the browser as plain HTML.
PHP programming language enables the developers to generate dynamic page content, create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server. It will also help in capturing the entered for data, send and receive cookies. Developers can also add, delete, and modify data in the database. Talking of web development PHP also helps you restrict users to access some pages on your website or encrypt data.
At NetTech India, developers can take up the PHP certification course and learn to develop websites and web applications. PHP runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.) and is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.). It also supports wide range of databases and is to learn and runs efficiently on the server side. PHP is free software released under the PHP License. PHP has been widely ported and can be deployed on most web servers on almost every operating system and platform, free of charge.