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This section holds the most general questions about PHP: what it is and what it does.

This section has details about PHP download locations, and OS issues.

PHP has already a long history behind him: Legendary PHP 1.0, PHP/FI, PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0.

This section holds common questions about relation between PHP and databases. Yes, PHP can access virtually any database available today.

PHP and its friends - HTML, COM etc.


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PHP and its friends
PHP and its friends - HTML, COM etc.


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PHP and HTML interact a lot: PHP can generate HTML, and HTML can pass information to PHP. Before reading these faqs, it's important you learn how to retrieve variables from outside of PHP. The manual page on this topic includes many examples as well. Pay close attention to what register_globals means to you too.
PHP can be used to access COM and DCOM objects on Win32 platforms.
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Since Javascript is (usually) a client-side technology, and PHP is (usually) a server-side technology, and since HTTP is a "stateless" protocol, the two languages cannot directly share variables. It is, however, possible to pass variables between the two. One way of accomplishing this is to generate Javascript code with PHP, and have the browser refresh itself, passing specific variables back to the PHP script. The example below shows precisely how to do this -- it allows PHP code to capture screen height and width, something that is normally only possible on the client side.
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You can find a browscap.ini file at » http://browsers.garykeith.com/downloads.asp.
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You can download PHP from any of the members of the PHP network of sites. These can be found at � http://www.php.net/. You can also use anonymous CVS to get the absolute latest version of the source. For more information, go to � http://www.php.net/anoncvs.php.
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PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym. The curious can visit » Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing for more information on recursive acronyms.
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From the preface of the manual: PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. A nice introduction to PHP by Stig S�ther Bakken can be found at � http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php on the Zend website. Also, much of the � PHP Conference Material is freely available.
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