PHP

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, but it originally stood for 'Personal Home Page' in the name 'PHP Tools', coined by Rasmus Lerdorf to describe Perl CGI code that he had written to process tags in his (you've guessed it) personal home page. From these humble beginnings an industry has been spawned.

Nowadays, PHP is a full featured scripting language that can be embedded into an HTML page to create dynamic content on the server. It is fast becoming the most widely supported and popular language for this purpose and is a prime example of the recent growth in high quality open source software.

Related links on the internet

PHP Builder Articles

The articles section of PHPBuilder.com. Deals with most aspects of PHP usage, from the fundamentals of PHP code layout within HTML to integration with ODBC databases and modules written in other programming languages.

PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor

Home of the PHP scripting language. Download the latest PHP binaries for Windows, PHP source code for Linux and PHP documentation (in a variety of formats) here.

Script Search

A large collection of applets, code snippets and assorted widgets written in languages such as Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, VB, XML, PHP and others. Each item is rated.

Web Monkey

Long established site providing a large number of tutorials and articles about HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, mySQL and many more topics to do with web development and management.

Hot Scripts

Code snippets and complete programs written in C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python and more. A particularly large number of PHP and Perl scripts can be found here. Many of the scripts are user rated and the site has its own search engine to help you find what you're looking for.

The Free Country

A great resource for developers, produced by Christopher S L Heng. Contains links to freeware tools for developing in C/C++, Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Perl and several other languages, and tools for web development. In addition, there are several articles by the site's author, in which he shares his experiences of, and opinions on, the choices facing web developers.