What Does a PHP Programmer Do?
A PHP programmer develops scripts and implements coding for various websites and applications using the PHP scripting language. PHP is used to create dynamic web applications, which rely on input from the user to properly display information. Information is stored in a MySQL database and PHP scripts send commands to the database to retrieve and display the appropriate information. It is the backbone of many web applications. PHP can be used to automatically keep track of visits to a website, to update displays of new content published to certain area of a website, and to control the overall display of content on a user-by-user basis, because it can be embedded in HTML. PHP is an open source scripting language, meaning no one has to pay to be able to use it, and it is maintained by a group of volunteer programmers. A simple text editor will be enough to practice coding, though a live testing server with PHP support will be required to test the code, unless PHP is downloaded and installe
