How to get started with PHP

PHP does not come pre-installed on Windows systems. To work with PHP on Windows, PHP will need to be manually downloaded and installed. instead of downloading separate PHP we will download XAMPP, it is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package. ( its a bundle which contains all the required libraries to run a PHP program) 

XAMPP's name is an acronym for

• X- (to be read as "cross", meaning cross-platform)
• A- Apache HTTP Server
• M- MySQL
• P- PHP
• P- Perl

How to Install XAMPP ?

What is PHP

Whenever anyone is learning PHP, the most common questions that first come up are: What is PHP? And how does it work?

It is precisely these questions we will look at in this lesson. It's a big help to understand such basics related to PHP before you start developing you own PHP pages. Such basic understanding will increase the speed of learning significantly.

So, let's get started!

What is Foreign Key?

What's in a Database?

a database is a container that holds tables and other SQL structures related to those tables.

What is an Object??

Before the development of Object Oriented programming, the variables were considered as isolated entities. For example, suppose a program needs to handle data in car manufacturing company, here testing the cars having number, Color, Speed. Three separated variables will be declared for this.

int number,speed;
String color;