---
title: PHP
slug: Glossary/PHP
tags:
  - Beginner
  - CodingScripting
  - Glossary
  - Infrastructure
  - Intro
  - PHP
---
PHP (a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source server-side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML to build web applications and dynamic websites.

## Examples

### Basic syntax

```php
  // start of PHP code
<?php
     // PHP code goes here
 ?>
// end of PHP code
```

### Printing data on screen

```php
<?php
   echo "Hello World!";
?>
```

### PHP variables

```php
<?php
 // variables
 $nome='Danilo';
 $sobrenome='Santos';
 $pais='Brasil';
 $email='danilocarsan@gmail.com';

 // printing the variables
 echo $nome;
 echo $sobrenome;
 echo $pais;
 echo $email;
?>
```

## See also

- [Official website](https://php.net/)
- {{Interwiki("wikipedia", "PHP")}} on Wikipedia
- [PHP](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PHP_Programming) on Wikibooks
- [MDN Web Docs Glossary](/en-US/docs/Glossary)

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