David Mitchell 
PHP BLUEPRINT 
An Essential Beginners Guide to Learn the Realms of PHP From A-Z

Before embarking on scripts, you have to start at the beginning: the syntax of PHP. This part is essential; if you do not know the basics of language at the fingertips, you will lose a lot of time later. 

PHP, The Web, What Is It? PHP, for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a programming language. There are many others, like C, Java, OCaml, but we can say that PHP is a programming language oriented for the Web or for websites. 

For the record, PHP was born at the hand of Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. At first very basic, it was made public in 1995 under the name of PHP / FI. Subsequently, the development passed from the hands of Rasmus Lerdorf to those of two students — Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans — who later founded Zend Technologies to promote PHP. If you develop applications with PHP, you will undoubtedly hear about Zend, whether through their framework, their development environment, or their server, respectively Zend Framework, Zend Studio, and Zend Server.