Ethical Hacking & Forensics

What is PHP ? PHP is a server side scripting language. that is used to develop Static websites or Dynamic websites or Web applications. PHP stands for Hypertext Pre-processor, that earlier stood for Personal Home Pages. PHP scripts can only be interpreted on a server that has PHP installed. The client computers accessing the PHP scripts require a web browser only.A PHP file contains PHP tags and ends with the extension “.php”. What is a Scripting Language? A script is a set of programming instructions that is interpreted at runtime.A scripting language is a language that interprets scripts at runtime. Scripts are usually embedded into other software environments. Server side scripts are interpreted on the server while client side scripts are interpreted by the client application.PHP is a server side script that is interpreted on the server while JavaScript is an example of a client side script that is interpreted by the client browser. Both PHP and JavaScript can be embedded into HTML ...