a Question about PHP

Hi, I am a young web programmer looking for some advice into the web technologies. Looking at apache.org, they list a couple of the projects. One of them was PHP. I don't know why, the name just sounds interesting, I picked it and began reading your tutorial. The thing is this. I would like to know if PHP is a language already written into web browsers and you can just write something and it will understand? Does it come as a standard, or is it something the server uses. I noticed that in the little introdution on the main page of your site, you have that PHP is server based. I do not really understand this. If you could please answer this I would be very grateful. Another thing, if this is part of the server and not the client, then does it come standard in all web servers. I have a Power Mac G3, a MAC guy, and run WebStar Suite Server 4.3. When I put in sample code in Golive, and tryed accessing it from IE, it didn't work. Could you please enlight me on this. I would appreaciate it a lot. Thanks for your time, Tony Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com