<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">PHP is the stepping stone to your first professional development gigs. PHP is the most popular back end language on the web.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Companies like Facebook and Tumblr use PHP as their primary back end coding language. It's in universal demands, and, as a new developer you're expected to know you're way around the front end and the back end. That's where PHP comes in.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">There was a time when a web developer could get away with knowing just HTML and some JavaScript-- but now as employers are looking for more value, you have to know more. PHP lets you access an entire world of backend databases, like mySQL which is introduced in this course.</span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">LearnToProgram is a leading provider of online courses for those learning web and mobile development. Over the past five years over 500,000 people have enrolled in LearnToProgram video courses. </span></span></p>