How Does PHP Run?
Have you ever wondered how your PHP source code gets to run? At some point, you installed PHP and started writing your scripts. You connected to your XAMPP MySQL with a few lines of code and it's magic! Well, maybe it is not magic after all. PHP is an interpreted (interpreter produces a result from your code but compiler turns your program into assembly) scripting language for server-side programming. It first appeared in 1995, 27 years ago. So how does it run? It needs an interpreter to run, and that is the "Zend Engine".
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