 about php php   php hypertext preprocessor  is a computer scripting language  originally designed for producing dynamic web pages  it is mainly used in serverside scripting  but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications   2  while php was originally created by rasmus lerdorf in 1994 the main implementation of php is now produced by the php group and serves as the de facto standard for php as there is no formal specification   3  released under the php license  the free software foundation considers it to be free software   4  php is a widelyused generalpurpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into html  it generally runs on a web server  taking php code as its input and creating web pages as output it can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge  5  php is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million servers  although the number of websites with php installed has declined since august 2005  6  it is also the most popular apache module among computers using apache as a web server  6  the most recent major release of php was version 525 on november 8   2007   7  