PHP (Personal Home Page) is a general-purpose scripting language which gives possibility of object-oriented programming.

In Algorit we use PHP as alternative (after Java) for

web applications development.

We use PHP language when functionality of application we develop is not too complicated and time of application development is very limited.

PHP syntax is very similar to C, Java or Perl syntax. It's usually used for websites as a dynamic content presentation tool. In such case PHP scripts are executed on WWW server side and content of the site is taken from database. PHP is an element which is part of LAMP - very popular and free server platform, beside PHP based on Linux operating system, Apache web server and MySQL database.

PHP has evolved to include a command line interface capability. It can be used also in standalone graphical applications.