Some programmers argue that because PHP and JavaScript are used for different things when developing websites, comparing the two is meaningless. Simple: PHP is a server-side scripting language, whereas JavaScript is a client-side scripting language. This distinction is important for developing websites.    PHP and JavaScript are used in conjunction to generate dynamic web pages. The development of Node.js, Angular.js, and React.js, however, made it possible to employ JavaScript for server-side scripting as well. As a result, the dispute between PHP and JavaScript is now legitimate. Now let’s explore how JavaScript and PHP vary from one another.    What is PHP?    In contrast to a web browser like Google Chrome, PHP, which stands for “Hypertext Preprocessor,” is a general-purpose, server-side programming language. It uses the GNU acronym (“GNU’s Not Unix”) in a recursive manner to emphasize its open-source nature. The first two iterations of the language were created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who also collaborated on the language’s subsequent iterations.    A scripting language is a language that the host computer interprets line by line. In contrast, before any one line of code can be executed, compiled languages convert every line of code from top to bottom […] read more