PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is a recursive acronym - something of a joke that programmers and other geek types (I use that term affectionately) like to use. PHP could just as well have been called XHP, JHP, ΣHP, ЖHP, and so on, without changing the recursive nature of the acronym.
The reason the authors of the language chose PHP is because its origin is from a piece of software called Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools). The modern definition and scripting language of PHP that we know today evolved from that, and the authors kept the acronym.
no 2 p in a php
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The meaning of PHP is PHP Hypertext Preprocessoror Personal Home PageThereby, the meaning of P in PHP is PHPitself.
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It is used to tell the sever to use the PHP parser. To begin php you must use <?php, and to end it, it is ?>.
You can't use PHP in an HTML document, but you can use HTML in PHP script.
Problem with using global variables in php is that they lose the the assigned value in a different php file. They only keep the global variable value in the php file in which they are declared. Instead of globals try and use $_SESSION or $_COOKIE to keep value intact across different php files in a project
You can find information about the PHP split function in the official PHP documentation on php.net. This function was deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 and removed in PHP 7.0.0, so it is recommended to use explode() or preg_split() instead.
The PHP foreach construct is used to iterate over arrays. This is done in the field of mathematics. It will issue errors when one tries to use it as a variable instead of arrays and objects.
Firstly, this is wrong question. The right one would be WHEN should you use PHP, not JSP? or, WHEN should you use PHP and WHEN JSP?
Get the code from c. Instead of c convetions insert php conventions.
you can open a URL synchronous, but this is very slow.It is advised to use the curl libraries instead.