The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s source materials.Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet.
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.
- PHP is open source
- PHP is free to download and use
- PHP is compatible with platform like Linux ,Windows etc
- PHP can be used with the servers like Apache,IIS etc .
- PHP suports databses like Mysql,Oracle etc
PHP is a server side scripting language used in web development to cerate dynamic web pages and can be embedded into HTML codes .The web server with php processor module interprets the code and geneate the web pages as per the given code .
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (A recursive acronym) .Earlier it was known as personnel home pages .
PHP is an open source software and its free to download and use .
It supports many databases like MySql,Oracle etc…
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