Well, you already know HTML programming and now would like to learn a new web programming language. PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages to be found on the web. PHP is a server side web programming language. Much of PHP is a combination of Perl, Java, and C concepts. It performs sophisticated mathematical calculations, offers mail and regular expression capabilities, database capability. PHP supports many of the most popular database servers, including MySQL, mSQL, Oracle, Sybase, Generic ODBC and several others. Before starting with PHP make sure your host allows you to execute PHP scripts, or find a new host that supports PHP.