WHY TO USE PHP?
PHP (Hypertext
Preprocessor) was earlier know as Personal Home Page.
PHP is a server side language and it is very powerful for
creating dynamic webpages.
Reason of why to use PHP is it is widely used and is free of
cost. It can be deployed on most web servers on every operating system and platform.
It is basically used for developing software that run on
browser. It interact with many different database languages including MySQL.
MySQL is also a free language database and interesting fact this that both runs
on Apache server so both can be used without license.
PHP runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX servers but it is best compatible
with Linux Servers.
Latest version of PHP is PHP7, View to know more
about it. 