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PHP in your crib


PHP is used by about 78% of all sites. The language appeared in 1995, when there were not many opportunities for creating dynamic web pages. PHP is dynamically typed and the same piece of code can behave differently depending on the context, making PHP programs difficult to scale and sometimes slow.

PHP is a great language for beginners for a number of reasons:

it forgives mistakes: you can run the program, and it will run until it reaches the area with the problematic code;
the language has a large community and a lot of learning materials are available for beginners. The language is constantly being updated, so make sure to check the latest version;
installing and configuring PHP is fairly easy compared to, for example, Ruby on Rails. You can download MAMP (for Mac) or WAMP (for Windows) and you will be ready to go in 5 minutes.
What can be done in PHP
According to the official PHP site, you can:

collect form data (login / password input, etc.);
create dynamic content on pages;
send and receive cookies;
write scripts on the command line;
execute scripts on the server side;
develop desktop applications.
Which companies use PHP
Facebook, Lyft, Mint, Hootsuite, Viber, Buffer, DocuSign.