Beginning With PHP

Brief knowledge about php:

Php is a general purpose server side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dymanic webpages. It is one of the first developed server side scripting languages to be embedded into an HTML source document. The code interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module which generates the resulting web page. PHP can be deployed on most of the web servers and also as a standalone shell on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. It was a cross platform based language which can work efficiently on every operating system. Rasmus Lerdorf was the founder of php in 1995. He also wrote the original Common Gateway Interface (CGI) component together with Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. General file extentions used in php are : .php , .phtml, .php4, .php5, .phps.

History of Php
Php was created by a Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. It was initially created by a set of Perl Scripts by the name Personel Home Page. Its first version was released publicly on June 8, 1995 as PHP version 1.0. After onths of work and Beta testing, official release was in November 1997 named PHP version 2.0.

Rasmus Lerdorf

 Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3. They changed the language name to Hypertext pre-processor. After the public testing the official launch was on 1998. Both of them founded Zend technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel and produced a Zend Engine in 1999. On May 22, 2000 PHP 4, powered by Zend Engine 1.0 was released. On july 13, 2004 PHP 5 was released, powered by new Zend Engine 2.0. PHP 5 included new features such as object oriented programming (oops), PHP data objects and numerous performance enhancements. In 2008, php 5 was the only stable version under development. The version recently being used is php 5.4.3 released on May 8, 2012. On the same side php 6 is also being developed . It has been released under the beta version.

Zeev Suraski

Andy Gutmans

History of HTML :
Html was founded by the Tim Berners Lee in 1980 who was a contractor at CERN enterprises. In 1989, Tim Berners Lee wrote a memo proposing an internet based hypertext system. He specified html and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990.

 The first publicly available description of html was document called HTML TAGS, first mentioned on the internet in the late 1991. Expect for the hyperlink tag, these these were strongly influenced by SGML guide, an inbased SGML based documentation format at CERN. Since 1996, the HTML specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors by the World Wide Consortium (W3C). 24 November, 1995 HTML 2.0 was published as IETF RFC 1866. In January, 1997 HTML 3.2 was published as a W3C recommendation. It was the first version developed and standardised exclusively by the W3C as the IETF had closed its HTML working group in September 1996. HTML 4.01 was published in late 1999. In 2000, HTML also became an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). In 2004, development of HTML 5 began under Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

History of WWW:
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, built ENQUIRE, as a personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play with hypertext; each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked to an existing page. In 1984 Berners-Lee returned to CERN, and considered its problems of information presentation: physicists from around the world needed to share data, and with no common machines and no common presentation software. He wrote a proposal in March 1989 for "a large hypertext database with typed links", but it generated little interest. His boss, Mike Sendall, encouraged Berners-Lee to begin implementing his system on a newly acquired NeXT workstation. He considered several names, including Information Mesh, The Information Mine (turned down as it abbreviates to TIM,

the WWW's creator's name) or Mine of Information (turned down because it abbreviates to MOI which is "Me" in French), but settled on World Wide Web. He found an enthusiastic collaborator in Robert Cailliau, who rewrote the proposal (published on November 12, 1990) and sought resources within CERN. Berners-Lee and Cailliau pitched their ideas to the European Conference on Hypertext Technology in September 1990, but found no vendors who could appreciate their vision of marrying hypertext with the Internet. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web: the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 0.9, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the first Web browser (named WorldWideWeb, which was also a Web editor), the first HTTP server software (later known as CERN httpd), the first web server (http://info.cern.ch), and the first Web pages that described the project itself. The browser could access Usenet newsgroups and FTP files as well. However, it could run only on the NeXT; Nicola Pellow therefore created a simple text browser that could run on almost any computer called the Line Mode Browser. To encourage use within CERN, Bernd Pollermann put the CERN telephone directory on the web previously users had to log onto the mainframe in order to look up phone numbers. According to Tim Berners-Lee, the Web was mainly invented in the Building 31 at CERN. but also at Home, in the two houses he lived in during that time (one in France, one in Switzerland). On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. The World Wide Web (WWW) project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere. [...] The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation. We are very interested in

spreading the web to other areas, and having gateway servers for other data. Collaborators welcome!" from Tim Berners-Lee's first message.

19961998: Commercialization of the WWW By 1996 it became obvious to most publicly traded companies that a public Web presence was no longer optional. Though at first people saw mainly the possibilities of free publishing and instant worldwide information, increasing familiarity with two-way communication over the "Web" led to the possibility of direct Web-based commerce (e-commerce) and instantaneous group communications worldwide. More dotcoms, displaying products on hypertext webpages, were added into the Web.

19992001: "Dot-com" boom and bust Low interest rates in 199899 facilitated an increase in start-up companies. Although a number of these new entrepreneurs had realistic plans and administrative ability, most of them lacked these characteristics but were able to sell their ideas to investors because of the novelty of the dot-com concept. Historically, the dot-com boom can be seen as similar to a number of other technology-inspired booms of the past including railroads in the 1840s, automobiles in the early 20th century, radio in the 1920s, television in the 1940s, transistor electronics in the 1950s, computer time-sharing in the 1960s, and home computers and biotechnology in the early 1980s. In 2001 the bubble burst, and many dot-com startups went out of business after burning through their venture capital and failing to become profitable. Many others, however, did survive and thrive in the early 21st century. Many companies which began as online retailers blossomed and became highly profitable. More conventional retailers found online merchandising to be a profitable additional source of revenue. While some online entertainment and news outlets failed when their seed capital ran out, others persisted and eventually became economically self-sufficient. Traditional media outlets (newspaper publishers, broadcasters and cablecasters in particular) also found the Web to be a useful and profitable additional channel for content distribution, and an additional vehicle to generate advertising revenue. The sites that survived and eventually prospered after the bubble burst had two things in

common; a sound business plan, and a niche in the marketplace that was, if not unique, particularly well-defined and well-served.

2002present: The Web becomes ubiquitous In the aftermath of the dot-com bubble, telecommunications companies had a great deal of overcapacity as many Internet business clients went bust. That, plus ongoing investment in local cell infrastructure kept connectivity charges low, and helping to make high-speed Internet connectivity more affordable. During this time, a handful of companies found success developing business models that helped make the World Wide Web a more compelling experience. These include airline booking sites, Google's search engine and its profitable approach to simplified, keyword-based advertising, as well as ebay's do-ityourself auction site and Amazon.com's online department store. This new era also begot social networking websites, such as MySpace and Facebook, which, though unpopular at first, very rapidly gained acceptance in becoming a major part of youth culture.

Reasons for choosing php:

Php is open source software. It is available free of cost. Php is software is very easy to use. Php is very stable. It is a platform independent language. This means that it can be used on any operating system. Php is used to make dynamic websites in which doing changes are very easy and saves a lot of time. Php is server side scripting language. It is a very easy to learn language. It is a cross platform based language. Php is an HTML embedded language. Php is fairly easy to install and can run as a plug-in on top of numerous web servers such as Apache, iPlanet, IIS etc.