---
title: "What is PHP? How to Write Your First PHP Program"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-php-how-to-write-your-first-php-program--qay3lq-o
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-php-write-your-first-php-program/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2022-08-03T20:44:06.717Z
updated: 2022-08-03T20:44:06.715Z
tags: ["php"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 17
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# What is PHP? How to Write Your First PHP Program

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 6 min read · 17 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The first generation of PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. The second generation was released as PHP/FI Version 2 in 1995 which referred to Personal Home Page Tools. To learn more about what PHP is and how to write an advanced PHP program you should install the XAMPP server on one of the operating systems we mentioned in this line.

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Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@msamgan** · 0 upvotes

> i still remember my first php hello world and the struggle i went through embed php in HTML..
> FYI worth it.

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