If you attend a concert and go backstage, you have a different perspective of the concert. You get to see the performers relaxing, you might see the furniture they like, and you will see the food and drink that energizes them for the concert. If you are lucky, you will hear the conversations strategizing about the concert and about connecting to the audience.
If you were able to go "backstage" on a website, you would also have a different perspective. You would see the language that powers blogs and other websites you regularly visit via the Internet.
PHP is one of those languages. It originally stood for "Personal Home Page," which helps you understand why it is a language used to create blogs. However, the name has changed to "Hypertext Preprocessor."
So, what do you see backstage with PHP? When you use the editor to look at the code of a website, you will see familiar language - HTML. However, within the tags, you will see the PHP code. It generates numbers, creates lists, and adds text directly to the webpage within the HTML.
So what? Why not just use JavaScript? Because JavaScript is a bit more limited than PHP. JavaScript is limited to the knowledge of the browser. PHP is limited to the server. That means PHP has access to much more knowledge than JavaScript. So, if you want to limit the language's access, use JavaScript. If you want more power, use PHP.
Difficult to learn? Not really. It can be thought of as learning how to insert a new tag.
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