What is PHP?

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
 

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Example</title>

</head>

<body>

 

<?php

            echo “Hi, I’m a PHP script!”;

        ?>

 

</body>

</html>