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PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and earlier it was abbreviated as Personal Home Page. It is a programming language widely used to build dynamic web applications. PHP is a server-side scripting language and it can encode with HTML to develop dynamic web applications. It handles dynamic content, form handling, session, cookie, dynamic websites, etc.

The websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Slack, Tumblr, etc are developed on PHP. It can easily be integrated with HTML script and treated as HTML. PHP is a server-side scripting language. This means the script is executed on the server and output is also built on the server. The result is sent to the client browser for rendering as HTML. PHP can also support Javascript, Javascript libraries such as Jquery and Ajax, CSS (Client side scripting languages)

A few technologies whose development is supported in PHP are listed below:

• Web-based applications
• E-commerce websites and applications
• Content Management System
• Developing the features of flash
• Processing of files
• Data Analytics and Representation
• Graphical interface design-based applications

Advantages of PHP:

• PHP is open source and free from cost
• PHP is platform dependent. PHP can run on any software such as UNIX, Windows, and Linux...
• It helps in managing the code easily

Disadvantages of PHP:

• It is open source. So it is not secure
• It is not suitable for giant content-based web applications.
• Poor quality of handling errors