Some important points will follow later but knowing a small amount about PHP would be good. There is no doubt PHP is a popular language, used for programming and capable of being placed into HTML. Some of the reasons for its popularity can be seen here:

*It is available for free .
*It can be used easily and with little trouble .
*It is able to be considered a fully object orientated language .
*It can be used on a variety of platforms .
*It is very fact on the Linux server, which makes it great in building difficult web applications .
*It is a great tool for programmers of an advanced nature and is suitable to be used on web pages.
*MySQL is a program that is able to be integrated well with PHP .