This package provides the /usr/bin/php7.0 command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell or performing general shell scripting tasks.

The following extensions are built in: Core date filter hash libxml openssl pcntl pcre Reflection session SPL standard zlib.

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.