Transcript php-48540843

PHP LANGUAGE
Skulbong Taisawapak ID:48540843
When was the language first designed
or implemented?
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In 1994 By Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP was written in the
C programming.
What were the goals and purpose of
this language?
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for use in monitoring his online resume and related
personal information. For this reason, PHP originally
stood for "Personal Home Page". Lerdorf combined
PHP with his own Form Interpreter, releasing the
combination publicly as PHP/FI (generally referred
to as PHP 2.0) on June 8, 1995.anguage
What kind of problem domain was it
intended for?
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PHP can do anything any other CGI program can
do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic
page content, or send and receive cookies.
Who were the envisioned users?
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Webmaster
Administrator
developer
Who designed the language ?
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Rasmus Lerdorf design PHP/FI for use in monitoring his
online resume and related personal information. For this
reason, PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page".
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rebuilt PHP's core,
releasing the updated result as PHP/FI 2 in 1997. The
acronym was formally changed to PHP: HyperText
Preprocessor, at this time. (This is an example of a recursive
acronym: where the acronym itself is in its own definition.) In
1998, PHP 3 was released, which was the first widely used
version.
What are some main features or distinctive
features of the language?
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server-side HTML-embedded scripting language
What contribution(s) did the language make to
the field of computer languages?
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PHP is its support for a wide range of databases.
Writing a database-enabled web page is
incredibly simple
How successful was the language?
How widely is the language used
today?
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Open Source general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and
can be embedded into HTML.
Examples
public $result;
function Add (Numbers $numbers){
$this->__construct($numbers);
}
function __construct(Numbers $numbers){
if ($numbers->numCount > 0){
for ($i=0;$i<$numbers->numCount;$i++){
$this->result = $this->result + $numbers->number[$i]>number;
}
$this->result = sprintf(PREC,$this->result);
return $this->result;
}
$this->result = $numbers->number;
return $this->result;
}