note 121138 deleted from intro-whatis by peehaa

Note Submitter: tomgoldie at yahoo dot com ---- I'm really NEW to PHP, so be gentle. But a few concepts really helped my understanding. 1) PHP is to Apache Server what OpenOffice BASIC is to OpenOffice. A way to make dynamic webpages on Apache Server. (Or maybe what VisualBasic is to Windows or to Microsoft Office...) 2) Because it is made for Apache, and Apache for it (perhaps) it is made to simplify handing data from a database to a webpage. It quickly turns database tables into arrays so you can iterate through the data in a loop, just inserting HTML tags as you go, like <li> and <br> as you go. Sorry this is a little simplistic, but it helped me get beyond the "why?" stage.