PHP Interview Questions and Answers - 1

Question: 1

Who is the father of PHP ?

Rasmus Lerdorf is known as the father of PHP.

Question: 2

What is the name of the scripting engine that powers PHP?

PHP is a scripting engine called the Zend Engine 2.

Question: 3

Why PHP?

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

Question: 4

What do the standard PHP delimiter tags look like?

. . . .<?php
. . . . // your code here

. . . . ?>

Question: 5

Which function would you use to determine the length of a string?

The strlen() function returns the length of a string.