PHP script

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.^[2] PHP can be deployed on most web servers and as a standalone interpreter, on almost every operating system and platform free of charge.^[3] A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) server-side script engine^[4] and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.^[5]
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. 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.^[6] PHP is free software released under the PHP License which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP.^[7]
While PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"