PHP is an open source server-side scripting language just like ASP. PHP is not just for Unix based system. You can compile it to run under Apache on Unix-based, Apache on Windows, even under IIS and MS Personal Web Server.
PHP is typeless and has a very simple programming syntax. It supports many features like database, SSL, FTP. It has all this features ready-to-compile, not like ASP that you have to purchase third-party components to use a feature.
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