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Rozdział 64. General Information

This section holds the most general questions about PHP: what it is and what it does.

1. What is PHP?
2. What does PHP stand for?
3. What is the relation between the versions?
4. Can I run several versions of PHP at the same time?
5. What are the differences between PHP 3 and PHP 4?
6. I think I found a bug! Who should I tell?

1. What is PHP?

From the preface of the manual:

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

A nice introduction to PHP by Stig S