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PHP is an incredibly powerful general purpose programming language.
It is modern, blisteringly fast, and capable of building simple pages, through to enormous websites, command line tools, and background processes.
It is one of the world's most widely used programming languages in the field of web development, an area in which it excels thanks to its roots as a HTML templating engine.
Beyond the language itself, PHP benefits from an enormous ecosystem.
With hundreds of thousands of open-source libraries and packages available to use in your own projects, you can stand on the shoulders of giants.
PHP has a large and thriving community, and with millions of developers using PHP daily, there's plenty of others that are sharing your journey, you are not alone.
If you are familiar with other C-like programming languages, such as Javascript, then most of the syntax for PHP will feel relatively familiar.
