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Frequently asked questions about PHP
What is PHP?
PHP (which stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language heavily used in the web development community to generate server-side web pages.
PHP is a flexible, fast and pragmatic language that powers everything from famous websites like Facebook, Wikipedia to popular CMS such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal.
It’s part of the well known LAMP stack, a family of established technologies to build web applications.
What is PHP used for?
PHP is primarily used to process data and generate HTML and other web related files.
Arbitrary PHP code can also be interpreted and executed via command-line interface (command line scripting). It’s generic enough to enable creation of desktop applications and even the control of drones.
How long does it take to learn PHP?
Learning PHP alone is not supposed to take a long time since the language is for the most part a collection of tools and libraries that contain functions. To build something meaningful with PHP, you will probably need to learn MySQL as well as HTML, CSS and Javascript. Overall it should take you three to six months to learn all of them.
What are the prerequisites for learning PHP?
As a scripting language, PHP is fairly simple so at the least you should take interest in programming and logic (boolean algebra). To build something useful with PHP though, you will probably have to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript and MySQL since the language was created to websites in mind.