PHP Introduction

What You Should Already Know

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

HTML
CSS
JavaScript

If you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home page.

What is PHP?

PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language
PHP scripts are executed on the server
PHP is free to download and use

PHP is an amazing and popular language!

It is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web (WordPress)!
It is deep enough to run large social networks!
It is also easy enough to be a beginner's first server side language!