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→Why is PHP so Useful?
In addition to the advantages of being a server side scripting language PHP is easy to learn and use. It is also fast and efficient (because the script is executed on the server it gets to take advanatge of the enterprise level hardware features such a mutli-processing and large scale memory).
Probably one of the most significant advantages of PHP is the ewase with which it interacts with the MySQL database to retrieve and store data, and as you would expect we will be covering this topic in great detail later in this book.
Add to this fact that PHP works seemlessly with HTML making it accessible to a broad commumity of web designers, and you have the recipe for the success of PHP.
Now that we know a little about [[The History of PHP]] and have an overview of how it works we can start looking at how to develop PHP based web pages.