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PHP on Raspberry Pi
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Python and Scratch are by far the most popular options for programming Raspberry Pi. With a bit of work, however, you can teach Raspberry Pi to understand other languages, including PHP. You might want to use PHP on Raspberry Pi for several reasons. If you've already built a PHP-based app, and you want to integrate it with Raspberry Pi, for example, it makes sense to stick to PHP. Perhaps you are more familiar with writing code in PHP than Python, or maybe you just want to give another programming language a try.
Before you can start working with PHP on Raspberry Pi, you need to install PHP itself on the machine. In most situations, PHP is used in tandem with a web server like Apache. Installing both PHP and Apache on Raspberry Pi is a matter of running:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5
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