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'''PHP''' is a general-purpose [[server-side]] [[scripting language]] originally designed for [[web development]] to produce [[dynamic web page]]s. It is among one of the first developed server-side scripting languages that is embedded into a [[HTML]] source document, rather than calling an external file to process data. Ultimately, the code is [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreted]] by a web server with a PHP processor module which generates the resulting web page. It also has evolved to include a [[command-line interface]] capability and can be used in [[Standalone softwareprogram|standalone]] [[Graphical user interface|graphical applications]]. PHP can be deployed on most web servers and also as a standalone [[Shell (computing)|shell]] on almost every [[operating system]] and [[Platform (computing)|platform]] free of charge. A competitor to [[Microsoft]]'s [[Active Server Pages]] (ASP) server-side script engine and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million [[web server]]s.<noinclude>
