what the hell is PHP everything i download for my site you need PHP :S wot is sooo gd about it? and wots da easyest way 2 use it?????

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You dont NEED PHP for your site, its just there if you need it...

PHP: hypertext preprocessor

yer but wots the main thing its used for???????

php (evolved from perl and the open-source answer to asp) is used to create dynamic web pages/sites.

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exactly, PHP is a SERVER side language, which means that teh code is processed by the servrer before being displayed by your browser...

hense its name 'preprocessor'

PHP is used to add functionality to your website. Basically, when someone surfing the web loads a php page, the server goes through the page and runs the php commands before sending out the page to the web surfer.

this allows the PHP program to do things before the web surfer sees the webpage. The things that PHP does to the webpage depends on the commands you give it. You can output HTML code, text, manipulate files, and more to make your webpage do things that are specific to the user or the page.

For example, you can make a PHP program to say "HI" to people who have not been to your site and "BYE" to people who have already been to your site.
This program will sit within your webpage HTML code and the server changes the HTML before it is sent to the websurfer. To the person looking at the page, they will never see any PHP code. This is why it is so powerful.