PHP is a simple, object-oriented, interpretive, robust, secure, high-performance, architecture-independent, portable, dynamic scripting language. PHP has a class keyword similar to java. Because you don't need a virtual machine, it's 5 times times faster than Java. Php
is rapidly becoming a standard, multipurpose, object-oriented scripting language. PHP can be used not only to develop Web applications, but also to develop common applications.
The most popular PHP environment is lamp,
Lamp is a Web network application and development environment, is the abbreviation of Linux, Apache,mysql, Php/perl, each letter represents a component, each component in itself is a very powerful component in the aspect it represents.
Why do you use it to combine more environments? Because it is open source free, there are no technical limitations and no license restrictions!
Now with PHP development of small and medium-sized enterprises is also constantly increasing, so it is necessary to learn, the previous days have been primary school days, feel very simple to get started and very rich online information, so a full confidence to learn such language.
Learning Environment Description: IDE Zendstudio for Studio 6.1, mysql5.2,apache2.2,php5.x
Hope you learn ok!