PHP Tutorials for beginners - 1

Hi Friends, There are billions of websites and applications are available on the web. Lot of programming languages to be used to develop web like Html,  PHP, ASP, JSP etc. Nowadays PHP is a very powerful and familiar web programming language even though which is open source. We can do anything through PHP on the web. I would tell you very familiar web giants Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube etc.... are using PHP. Why I am telling this is, from this post on wards I am going to write about some PHP programming language based tutorials. I believe that coming tutorials would be helpful for freshers, web developers and the people who are wanted to learn about PHP web programming simply. In coming sections we gonna discuss about web designs, developments and practical projects and so on.

Why PHP?

• Which is an open source server side programming language available at free of cost.


• Very efficient on multi-platforms like Windows, Linux, and UNIX etc..


• Suitable for developing dynamic web pages


• We can develop from small websites to giant business and organizational websites, informative forums, chatting platforms, CRM solutions, e-commerce shopping carts, community websites, e-business, shopping carts and gigantic database driven sites. Moreover, data handing has also been pretty handy in PHP in which the programmers can easily store data, serialize, creating cookies, calculating viewers by cookies and sessions and excellent file management system.


• Flexible for the clients in terms of Budget and all.


• 40% of websites are running through PHP programming.


• Familiar faces using PHP is Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, WordPress etc.

Ok enough about PHP stories. Lets start our practical appliance,

How to install PHP on your local PC?

Step 1:

We need to install Apache server, which is used  to run our php scripts. And then PHP and MySQL etc.

I would be telling you the easy way for doing these things, There are some inbuilt web servers available on the market, which integrates php, Apache and MySQL  together.

They are XAMPP and WAMP servers. Both are available for multi platforms like windows, Linux etc.

I would be suggesting you to use any one of these servers, both are very flexible to work.

Xampp Download Link Click Here  or Wamp Server Download Link Click Here

Download any one of latest versions from the above mentioned links.

Step 2:

Install Xampp on windows - See this link

Install Wamp on Windows - See this link

(*If you have doubts post your comments below)

Step 3:

After Installation, You have to start your apache server and mysql database using control panel of Xampp and Wamp.

For Xampp Server like this

For Wamp Server like this

That's it for your installation process.

We go for launching our PHP codes in next session. Thank you for reading. Have a nice day.