'''PHP''' is a server-side scripting language for creating interactive [[web page]]s. The acronym ''PHP'' derives from Personal Home Page, but is now defined as "PHP: Hypertext Pre-Processor" (it means "something to handle data before it becomes HTML" <ref> [http://www.htmlite.com/php001.phpHTMLite PHP Tutorial] </ref> ). Unlike [[HTML]], JavaScript and others, PHP is a Server-Side scripting language. It most always is processed into HTML for use in a web page.
PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages in the Open Source world, which is often used together with [[Apache]] on [[Linux]] or on other paid platforms such as Microsoft [[IIS]] on [[Windows]].