4th entry - PHP in detail

According to The PHP Group(2007) PHP are supported by most of all the major operating systems. Operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Window, Mac OS X and others. With the current version of PHP versions (4.4.6 or 5.2.1), it able to support most of the web servers available today in the market. Servers such as Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Personal Web Server, Caudium, Xitami, and many others more.

PHP can also work as supporting CGI standard and also can work as CGI processor. By using PHP scripting language, we have easier choice by selecting any operating system and web server. Further more we may have a choice by using procedural programming or object oriented programming or both of the method together.

It is not only to present HTML (HyperText Markup Language) but also enable to present images, PDF files and Flash movies. Text also can be output or present by XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) and XML (Extensible Markup Language). Beside presenting such file format mentioned in this paragraph, PHP also able to auto generate the files and save them in the file system. With this function, the PHP does not require printing the output files result on the screen but creating a server side cache system for the dynamic content.

Reference
The PHP Group, "PHP: What can PHP do? - Manaul", http://my2.php.net/manual/en/intro-whatcando.php