Why use PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language, which is used to design the dynamic web applications with MySQL database.
- PHP handles dynamic content, database as well as session tracking for the website.
- You can create sessions in PHP.
- It can access cookies variable and also set cookies.
- PHP helps to encrypt the data and apply validation.
- It supports several protocols such as HTTP, POP3, SNMP, LDAP, IMAP, and etc.
- Using PHP language, you can control the user to access some pages of your website.
- As PHP is easy to install and set up, this is the main reason why PHP is the best language to learn.
- PHP can handle the forms, such as - collect the data from users using forms, save it into the database, and return useful information to the user.
To Understand PHP step by step, watch the above tutorial video.