PHP: Power of PHP

Some of the important points regarding PHP:

• PHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
• PHP can collect form data
• PHP can send and receive cookies
• PHP can add, delete, modify data in your database
• PHP can be used to control user-access
• PHP can encrypt data
• PHP can generate dynamic page content
• PHP runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
• PHP supports a wide range of databases
• PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side