What is PHP/FI?
PHP (http://www.php.net/) is a popular, freely available web applications development tool. The newest version, called PHP3, and now PHP4 includes an HTML-embedded scripting language and a server-side preprocessor that interprets the HTML- embedded code in order to create dynamically generated web pages. PHP3 includes support for various databases, including mSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Thus, PHP is commonly used for the development of database enabled web sites. Like other preprocessed, html-embedded scripting languages, PHP has many of the more useful features of Perl but is designed for HTML development in mind. It eliminates the need for numerous small Perl CGI programs by allowing you to place simple scripts directly in your HTML files. This speeds up the overall performance of your web pages since the overhead of forking Perl several times has been eliminated. It also makes it easier to manage large web sites by placing all components of a web page in a single html file. Similar