Is it easy to develop a web application? YES! Here’s PHP to save the developers from a huge codebase. Within a few minutes, you will be getting introduced to Things You Didn't Know About PHP. Getting Introduced To PHP PHP stands for ‘Hypertext Preprocessor.’ Earlier, it stood for ‘Personal Home Page.’ It is: Open-source. Imperative. Server-side scripting language. Object-oriented, procedural. Widely-used. Reflective. General-purpose. An interpreted language. Cross-platform. Functional. Mainly used for web development. Used to develop static as well as dynamic web pages. Can be embedded in HTML and vice-versa. History It was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and developed by Zend Technologies. It was released in June 1995. It is primarily implemented using C language while some components have been taken from C++. It is released under the PHP license and its standard interpreter is powered by Zend Engine. Some Uses Of PHP Powers Of PHP 1. PHP scripts are mainly used for: