PHP is essentially a universal scripting language for developing web applications as well as web integrations between a wide range of programming languages. ...

For over a decade, we've seen articles asking: "Is PHP dead? " with competitors like JavaScript hoping to take its place. ...

It was originally called Personal Home Page Tools, but now it stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is an open-source, HTML-embedded scripting language used to write server-side programs. ...