PHP scripts formerly referred to as Personal Home Page Tools is a scripting language that is very popular for developing applications on the internet. It is popular as it cane be easily used to create dynamic web pages. Since its conception is has evolved so that it can now be used in standalone graphical applications (user interface which allows people to interact with electronic devices such as hand held devices).
Originally created in 1995 by Rasmus Lerfdorf, PHP is now produced by The PHP Group. This is the standard form of PHP, although there are no formal specifications. As a result it is generally considered to be free software. Almost inevitably this has led to its use in gaming, particularly simple web based gaming which can be created by any web user (it is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers). Over the years new versions have come about, starting with the oldest release: Red another old release: Yellow, the current release: Green, and the future release, Blue.
PHP is now widely used to create web-based gaming, possibly due to its simplicity for newcomers whilst still including advances features for a professional programmer. Some people are able to start writing simple scripts in only a few hours. There are also a large number of websites dedicated to giving tutorials on php scripting. What distinguishes PHP from other codes is that PHP is executed on the server. If you were to have a script on your server, the client would receive the results of running that script, with no way of determining what the underlying code may be. You can even configure your web server to process all your files with PHP, so that you can make sure what you create is private or secret if you desire.
As such a new game can be kept secret for some time and so the list of games available from PHP is endless. Games include online games where people can play each other over servers to simple flash games that use interactivity within a very small file.
It is, for a while, been highly regarded as the optimum coding to make dynamic content such as gaming, and may continue to be so in the future.