Did you know that PHP originally meant – Personal Home Page? Yes thats right 
In 1994 Rasmus Lerdorf created PHP to track the online visitors coming to see his resume.
PHP, slowly grew in popularity and later came to be know as : PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
Here are a few takeaways about PHP:
- It can be embedded directly into the HTML pages to make them more dynamic.
- It was designed to be a server-side scripting language more then a programming language. We say it is “server side” beacause when an HTTP request is made for a PHP page, all the logic inside the PHP page is executed on the server-side and finally an HTML page returned back to the user.
- PHP is also cross-platform scripting language. That means, code written in PHP can be executed on Windows, UNIX and various flavors of LINUX.
Hope this helps!
