What is PHP and what does PHP stand for?

Stand for: Hypertext Pre-processor (earlier called, Personal Home Page)
Well known category as a Server Sided language,
Mostly used in web design/web scripting industry
You may have heard of some other scripting languages like ASP, Python and Perl… and some more.PHP is also one of them .PHP is probably the most popular scripting language on the web to enhance web pages.
With PHP, we can do things like
·Create login pages
·Check details from a form
·Create forums, picture galleries, surveys…
And much more.
If you are a good observer you must have seen extensions as “.php” in the URL bar of your browser on several web pages. If you haven’t seen yet! Doesn’t matter I can list some name for you
· Wikipedia
· WordPress
· Flickr
· Facebook (though they have their own fork of PHP called HHVM)
· Yahoo

Here authors have written some programming code to liven up the plain, old HTML (HyperText Markup Language), a standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.PHP is known as a server-sided language. That’s the reason, PHP doesn’t get executed on your computer, but on the computer you requested the page from. The results are then handed over to be displayed in the browser.

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Impact of Social Platform on Students

Now days everyone is connected to one another in this vast network generated by the Internet.Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher of communication theory, quotes “The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.” This electronic independence is inherently dependent upon the Internet. It illuminates the lives of thousands of people by spreading knowledge internationally, thereby making us a global social citizen.
In the past, the communicating and free sharing of thoughts among people were restricted by long distance, nationality and/or religion. But now, even these barriers cannot stop the flow communication. The new world of social networking allows free sharing of thoughts. Online social networks are created by websites such as Facebook, which has emerged as a giant in this social world.
The Question is how do these networks affect our education?
And how do they influence the lives of students?
As we humans are social animals. Almost, every individual love to be in one or another group and prefer to follow, what this group does. All of our traditions and cultures are the product of this group-oriented facet of human nature.
In “Theory of Motivation” by American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, he said that “the social need of human beings is the third most important requirement after our physical and safety needs — the third tier in his hierarchy of needs. Even our self-esteem comes after this social dependence. This is the main reason billions of people use social networking to stay connected, make friends and satisfy their social needs.
As of 2016 the world’s largest social networking company, Facebook, has more than 1.89 billion active users, and the number of users is increasing every year. One of the most interesting things to look at is the increasing number of student users on such social networking sites. As per the survey conducted by Pew Research Centre, about 72% of high school and 78% of college students spend time on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. This data is enough to analyse how much the student community is involved in this virtual world of social networking.
There are several reasons involved, why students love to spend time socializing. Firstly, social networks provide them the freedom to do whatever they want — to upload what they want! & to talk whom they want! .To make new friends and comment on the lives of different people.
And the most important one, Students have freedom, to create other online identities that the real world does not allow. This freedom is gained, just by sitting in front of a computer or on a Smartphone.
But this has a darker side and has gained the attention of many parents, and even eminent psychologists, all over the globe. One of the biggest problems is the identity crisis constant social networking produces. As explained by Professor S. Shyam Sunder, a renowned researcher at Penn State, “The types of actions users take and the kinds of information they are adding to their profiles are a reflection of their identities.”
Many psychologists are worried about the identity crisis that our present generation may face today. The lives of people, especially students, are largely influenced by what is posted by other people on their profiles. The habits that students learn are decided more by what their friends do and less by the teachings of parents or professors.
Students have become prone to frequent fluctuations in mood and self-control. If one of a student’s friends posted about his or her present relationship with someone, then other friends are pressed to do the same thing. Actions that attract more public attention hold more value, even despite some of them being immoral or illegal. We can even see that many students are worried about their looks, and so they always try to upload nicer pictures than their friends. A recent survey has stated that whenever someone uploads a profile picture, it immediately affects the moods of friends. It often produces stress, anxiety or fear about their identities as people. Consistently thinking in this way can sometimes lead to depression.
The most important things in a student’s life are studying, learning good habits and gaining knowledge to become a person with moral character. But today, as we see in various studies, this optimal learning process is seriously jeopardized by students becoming entrapped by the ploys of social networking. Students neglect their studies by spending time on social networking websites rather than studying or interacting with people in person. Actively and frequently participating in social networking can negatively affect their grades or hamper their journeys to their future careers.
Getting too involved in social media can lead to an addiction that inculcates bad habits. People prefer to chat with friends for hours, and this leads to a waste of time that could have been used for studying, playing or learning new skills. It is often said that a long-term friendship or relationship is developed when people meet each other, spend time and share their experiences. But this virtual way of communicating with each other does not lead to a natural, friendly experience and hence cannot produce a healthy relationship with those friends or relatives. Also, these relationships tend to terminate easily due to a lack of personal contact or frequent visits to them.
Often, students/people who are not mature enough to accurately understand the word “like” or “comment” on social or political issues, which often leads to serious controversies.
The conclusion is that, it is necessary to develop certain regulations over the use of social networking sites, especially for school and under graduate students. But, can have bit flexibility to get the choice to spend time socializing in an effective way and that it should not degrade their school or college performance,
One thing should be kept in mind that all social networking sites create virtual worlds that drastically differ from reality. People should develop the cognitive and intuitive ability to analyse how much time they want to spend on social media.
We have got a life for once, it should be spent in building our personality not in just wasting time in scrolling news feed of Facebook, twitter or posting thousands of selfies on instagram.
It is left up to every individual to decide what really matters in their life and how much of this virtual life translates to real life.


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