Practicality: It requires minimum  knowledge of programming.Power: It has the ability to interface with databases, form and create pages dynamically.Possibility: Developers are rarely bound to any single implementation solution.Price: It is open source software.

- PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)
- PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
- PHP is FREE to download from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
- PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side

- PHP files may contain text, HTML tags and scripts
- PHP files are returned to the browser as plain HTML
- PHP files have a file extension of ".php", ".php3", or ".phtml"

The echo () function is a tad faster than print() function, because it returns nothing, whereas print() function returns 1 if the statement is successfully output.

- PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- PHP is a server-side scripting language, like ASP
- PHP scripts are executed on the server
- PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL,
Generic ODBC, etc.)
- PHP is an open source software (OSS)
- PHP is free to download and use