Thread: In lame mans terms, what is php?

and how is it associated with html?
so can i use php in a html website?

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML

Hopefully this helps

Hypertext Preprocessor? or Personal Home Page maybe.

Yeah - what he said

plus

It is associated with html because it can be used on web pages - which are written in html = the standard language for writing web pages.

It is a programming language.

It is mostly commonly used to write programs that output HTML based on information in databases and data typed into forms on webpages by users - but has plenty of non-web related uses.

Any website can use PHP, providing the webserver can run programs written in the language.

you turn up at a web page and you're presented with some html, but the html instead of being static/the same for everyone that turns up there, whenever they turn up, it is dynamically created by the php script at the time of you requesting the page