What is the PHP language most used for when creating a website??

[Lexicon]

Is php only useful for creating websites?? Or does it have any other uses.

 

What is PHP mostly used for?? I started to learn php because I wanted to learn to create websites and build one of my own.. but is php mostly used for forum websites or what other things is it good for. Anything that requires data storage?

 

What would you say are the top 3 most useful languages needed to create a good quality website.

 

 

Thank you for your time and helping me with these answers.

[salathe]

Is php only useful for creating websites?? Or does it have any other uses.

 

No. Yes.

 

is php mostly used for forum websites or what other things is it good for.

 

No. I'd say there are more Wordpress installs than forums. And many, many other types of uses which are more prolific than forums.

 

Anything that requires data storage?

 

Sure, why not.

 

What would you say are the top 3 most useful languages needed to create a good quality website.

 

HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

 

 

[JonnoTheDev]

PHP is not just for creating dynamic websites.

 

It can also be used for command line purposes, such as sending a newsletter to x number of subscribers. Resizing x number of images in a directory. Basically the things that are done behind the scene & not in a web browser.

 

Also APIS or web services are written in PHP. Lets say I have an API on my server that users can access were they provide POST data and it will return train timetables in XML format. The API is written in PHP but it can be used no matter what the programming language is that is calling it.

 

PHP can also be used to create desktop GUI applications, although I do not have much experience using the toolkits.

[tibberous]

Yeah, when you get better you can use PHP to automate a ton of shit. I wrote a whole backup system in PHP and WinSCP command line.