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PhP3, the third generation of Rasmus Lerdorf's 'Personal Home Page Tools' scripting language is a little known, but very powerful programming tool
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PHP3.0: what it is, and why you should know about it
PHP3.0 is not new. It began in 1994 as a parsing engine set up to track activity on the home page of its' author. Since then it has grown into a server-side scripting language that can be inserted directly into html documents, much like asp. After the (web) server interprets the php code, it returns html to your web browser.
Well that sounds pretty good, but why should you care? PHP, unlike asp, this language and the backend needed to run it is completely free. That's right, php is an open source language, available for both Unix and Windows platforms.
Great, but why should you bother to use it? php will work with any dB, but is designed around MySQL, which is also freely available. It allows you to create database driven sites, with out much hassle: scripting and coding of forms, and dynamic pages can be done quickly. If you want to learn about PHP3.0, and how it works, go here to see the php3 function reference.
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