PHP in 60, a 60 second lesson on a topic about PHP. Check out the whole playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDE47EBFCC40BDD82 In this lesson, we look at a general overview of PHP. More of these will be to come, so make sure to like and subscribe! Video Script: PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext preproscessor, which makes it a recursive acronym. PHP is a serverside scripting language that is embedded into HTML code, and proscessed by an interpreter on the webserver. The generated HTML is then sent to the end user. PHP allows you to create dynamic websites. This means that the same webpage can be rendered differently based on certain data, such as the location of your user, data submitted via a form, or data on a database within the server. Lets quickly take a look at an example you're all familliar with. Go on to Facebook, and click on any photo that a friend has posted. Do you see that little part right there? Yep, this webpage is facebook.com/picture.php, meaning it uses php. The stuff that comes after that helps the script know what to display. To use PHP, your server must have the interpreter installed. Most webhosting packages provide PHP, because it's free. If you don't have your own webhosting, or you want to try out bits of code before they go live on the web, XAMPP is a common choice for running PHP code locally. XAMPP is availiable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS10.