Introduction. If you want to learn the basics of PHP, then you've come to the right place.
The goal of this tutorial is to teach you the basics of PHP so that you can: Customize PHP scripts that you download, so that they better fit your needs. Begin to understand the working model of PHP, so you may begin to design your own PHP projects. Give you a solid base in PHP, so as to make you more valuable in the eyes of future employers. PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Hypertext Preprocessor. Header. CGI (not FastCGI) is easy to learn and good for small http servers ... i am writing one to learn programming (python)... that lead me to research php-cgi internals. php running in CGI mode works like this: - if we type "php-cgi[.exe]" at console, seems it freezes and nothing happens, but is actually waiting for a valid html/php code from standard input until EOF is reached (*nix: ctrl-d , win: ctrl-z + enter, or an actual piped file or stream)
