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What is PHP?

PHP is a server side scripting language, widely used in web programming to build web applications. PHP can be used to develop dynamic content pages. Using PHP we can send request and get response or interact with database servers and manage the page content accordingly.

How PHP works

To run the PHP we need a  web server like apache or IIS.  Whenever a request comes, then web server runs the PHP engine and the output of the executed script is sent back to the user.  Depending on the various input conditions the page content can be changed. PHP can easily connect to MySQL database and generate the content accordingly.