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PHP Uses – Applications of PHP Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

PHP  is known as Hypertext Preprocessor. It is an open-source, server-side scripting language embedded in HTML used to manage databases, development of web applications, session tracking, build e-commerce sites, etc. It is kind of a programming language that is used for writing automated tasks. Many databases such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, Informix, MySQL can be integrated with PHP. It supports a large number of protocols such as POP3, IMAP , and LDAP. PHP scripts are interpreted only on a server that has PHP installed in it. Since PHP is a server-side scripting language, it gets executed first on the server and then it gets to the web browser to the user. Why is PHP so Common? Versatile:-  PHP is platform-independent and can be run on multiple platforms such as Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and multiple browsers are also supported. Speed and Security:-  PHP uses its memory for its overall functioning and hence has a good operational speed. Moreover, it has many new tools and frameworks