A little information about PHP would be helpful. It is a very popular server side programming language that can be embedded into HTML. Its popularity has been aided by the following features:

*It is free.
*Easy to learn and use.
*It is a fully object oriented language.
*It is platform independent.
*Its speed on the Linux server makes it very effective in building complex, and large web applications.
*It allows advanced programming and is very easy to integrate with web pages.
*PHP also integrates very nicely with MYSQL.