Because you’re here, you must be interested in writing PHP scripts. Perhaps you just want to learn to program and you heard that PHP is one of the easiest languages to learn. You’re right; it is. PHP is a good choice for your first programming language. Perhaps you’re developing an interactive Web site and you heard that PHP is particularly good for Web site development. You’re right; it is. You can be interacting with users at your Web site in no time at all. Perhaps you have an application to write and you have a short timeline.
You heard that PHP is easy to learn. You’re right; it is. It was designed with easy to learn as a specific design goal. Perhaps you have some system administration, file manipulation, or data handling tasks to perform and you heard that PHP can handle these tasks. You’re right; it can. PHP can do almost anything that you can think of, although it draws the line at asking your boss for a raise. Well, wait a minute, PHP can send e-mail.
