PHP

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PHP is a scripting language and an interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers. PHP, originally derived from Personal Home Page Tools, however it now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP is an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology. As with ASP, the PHP script is embedded within a Web page along with the HTML. Before the page is sent to a user that has requested it, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script.

An HTML page that includes a PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of ".php" ".php3," or ".phtml". Like ASP, PHP can be thought of as "dynamic HTML pages," since content will vary based on the results of interpreting the script.

PHP is free and offered under an open source license, which can be found here http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Here is some sample PHP code, some of the lines have been split over two or more lines, these are marked by a *. These lines should be kept as one long line.

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