# About PHP

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About PHP

PHP is an acronym of hypertext preprocessor. It is a server side language through which we can make a dynamic web page by embedding PHP code into HTML. To run PHP pages you need to have following installation on your system/machine.

OS (Operating System) -\> Windows/Linux  
Server -\> IIS/Apache  
Database -\> MySQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, MSACCESS, PostgreSQL etc.  
PHP -\> PHP Installation on System

You can easily run PHP on Windows by installing WAMP server. WAMP stands for Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP and popularly used as development platform next to LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP).

A sample PHP page script starts as follows:  
=========CODE BEGINS========

\<?php // PHP Begins  
echo ‘Hello World’; //(echo) Print Output on Screen  
?\> //PHP Ends

=========CODE ENDS==========

There are various support and tutorials available for PHP. Some popular resources are:  
[http://www.php.net](http://www.php.net) (PHP site)  
[http://www.mysql.com](http://www.mysql.com) (MySQL site)  
[http://www.w3schools.com/PHP](http://www.w3schools.com/PHP) (PHP Tutorials)