Welcome To Bob's PHP

PHP is one of those programming languages called, alternately, a scripting language and a programming language. It is the most popular programming language in use on the world wide web, and was structured to interact with SQL type databases, especially MySQL.

PHP and MySQL are both open source platforms. Open source means that a software project is being developed under a General Public License (GPL) which stipulates that the source code must be available for anyone to see, change, or enhance. The GPL also says that if you change the code, you must contribute your code back to the project.

Open source projects are developed by programmers and developers from all over the world. The advantage is that these developers work pretty much for nothing, and their work becomes their passion. The development process is robust as thousands of people can be involved in creating and debugging the code. A private enterprise cannot equal an open source organization in quality and quantity of work. Open source can be seen as possibly the only aspect of socialism that is workable in the real world, but remember that people are working for virtually nothing.

Drupal, the platform for this web page, is an open source project and is written in PHP. This is because PHP is free, independent of operating system, and is in universal use throughout the world. Drupal doesn't care if it is running on Windows or Linux as long as a PHP interpreter is installed.

My reason to build this web site it to work in PHP and Drupal. I will share some projects and code, and hope to increase our collective knowledge of PHP and its capabilities.