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Short Desciption: Resources for Learning PHP
Content Inside: PHP is a scripting language most widely used today. PHP is widely used to program dynamic web site, although it was likely used for other usage.

PHP can also be seen as another option from ASP.NET / C # / VB.NET Microsoft, Macromedia ColdFusion, JSP / Java Sun Microsystems, and CGI / Perl. Examples of other, more complex applications such as CMS built using PHP are Mambo, Joomla!, Postnuke, Xaraya, and others.



Many developers have learned to use PHP for years because it was a good solution for making Web pages and the price is right. PHP stands like many other new acronyms for the Internet is a recursive acronym, (referring back to itself). PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor. This is an HTML scripting language for general-purpose lot of work, such as ASP pages or languages other explanation you might have used. Basically, you mix HTML with scripting information. When the PHP process to see the HTML, send text directly to the user. This process of scripting information, and passes the resulting HTML to the user as well.

This chapter helps you discover how PHP works with Amazon Web Services. I assume that you already know something about PHP, but the first two sections provide some suggestions about how to learn more about PHP. Because PHP runs on many platforms, you'll also find some resources that are advised to obtain and install PHP for your specific server. These instructions may require a little technical knowledge on your part, so make sure you understand what you need instructions before you do that.

The examples in this chapter show how to use PHP to create applications Amazon Web Services. The first example provides a simple guide to access web services without the feature luxury applications. You'll also find an application that shows how to use PHP with MySQL, open source database. In fact, you can download any piece of free software in this chapter and try all the examples without spending a single penny-that's one of the advantages of using open source.

I also give some tips to help you with your PHP applications. You will find that open source system adequate support, but you will not get the same level of hand holding that you do with paid products such as Visual Studio. Open source solutions tend to require a developer motivated, so maybe not the perfect solution if you need a package approach that does not require much fiddling on your part. With this in mind, this chapter also gives some idea of where you can get help when you need it.