PHP Language Settings

From the cPanel control panel, a customer can set several versions of PHP.

The 'basic mode' shows the values of several environment variables used in 'php.ini.'

PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT taken from environment memory_limit = ${PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT}

From Personal To Professional

Nowadays, PHP used for both  'Personal Home Page' and 'Professional Home Page' development of website applications and pages.

PHP - Hypertext Pre-Processor

Features

• Simple: easy-to-use
• Open Source: free
• Server-side scripting language: Applications runs on a server. The code contains HTML and PHP code placed between '<?PHP' and end '?>' tags.
• Programming Style: Procedural or Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Powerful: fast to implement, logics and commands similar to C language
• Development Environment: Linux, UNIX (HP UX, Open BSD, Solaris) Windows, Mac OS, RISC OS
• Supported Web Servers: Apache, IIS, FastCGI (Lighttpd & Nginx)
• Secured
• Flexible: Almost 75% of websites are designed using PHP which includes Facebook, Yahoo
• Web Development Features: dynamic content, sending & receiving cookies.
• Database Support: Supports a wide range of databases and its functions like MySQL to retrieve, edit, delete, and many-more operations. Supports Abstraction layer such as PDO or database connect using Open Database connection via ODBC. Connect to other databases via cURL or sockets like CouchDB.
• Support connections with other servers to create raw network connections using protocols like HTTP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, PoP3
• Writing desktop applications using graphical interface
• Word Processing or Text Processing which includes regular expressions, XML document interpretation and access. Generate and display text from XHMTL or XML files.
• Advanced Features: Can work as a web-server module or CGI interpreter, executing code using Cron-tables in Linux or Task Scheduler on Windows (such scripts run from the command line using PHP interpreter), create image & PDF files, make video adjustments.