PHP is Web Scripting language originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, as Personal Homepage Tools, now referred to as HyperText Preprocessor. After the PHP 3 release, the language gained popularity and today is one of the most used web programming languages for producing dynamic web sites. The newest version is 5 which adds many features, security, and enhanced OOP (Object Oriented Programming) support. PHP often comes in bundle with Apache httpd - web server and MySQL - relational database system, called LAMP or WAMP (L stands for Linux, W for windows). Many popular websites are powered by PHP including facebook.com, youtube (in the beginning), some google services, digg.com - the news portal and many others. Wordpress the popular weblog (blog) platform is built with PHP.

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