PHP vs HTML

Last Updated : 30 Aug, 2019

What is PHP?

Example of PHP code:

php

<?php  
echo "GeeksforGeeks";  
?>

What is HTML?

Example of HTML code:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <p>Hello</p>
</body>

</html>

PHP vs HTML

PHP	HTML
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf.	Developed by Tim Berners-Lee.
It is used for the development of dynamic websites and dynamic web applications.	It is used to create web pages.
PHP codes are dynamic.	HTML codes are static.
PHP is used for server-side programming which will interact with databases to retrieve information, storing, email sending, and provides content to HTML pages to display on the screen.	HTML is used for specifying colors, text formatting, aligning, etc.
PHP is easy to learn but not as much as HTML.	HTML is very easy to learn.
PHP is used for server-side development.	HTML is used for front-end development
PHP can't be used in an HTML file.	HTML can be used in a PHP file.
Extensions of PHP are .php, .php3, .php4, .php7	Extensions of HTML are .html, .htm

Interesting Facts:

Famous websites like Facebook, Technorati, Yahoo, Wikipedia.org, WordPress.org, Twitter.com, Flickr, etc are powered by PHP.

PHP is deployed to more than 244 million websites. (Netcraft’s web survey 2013)

When PHP was developed, it stands for Personal Home Page.

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