PHP

PHP, short for PHP HyperText Processor, is an advanced server-side web programming language that is very similar to Microsoft's ASP. PHP is commonly the scripting language used with websites running on the Apache HTTP server, generally found running on Linux. PHP scripts are used to perform tasks such as communicating with a SQL database or performing calculations based on parameters supplied to a dynamic webpage. PHP code is placed within a PHP-based HTML document (extension .php) and handles which compiled code will be sent from the server to the web browser. This is commonly referred to as "server-side scripting".