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What are the differences between Drupal and PHP?
PHP is a programming language.
Drupal is a framework built on PHP, and is marketed as a content management system.
According to Wikipedia, Drupal acts as the back-end framework for at least 2.3% of all websites internationally.
In other words, Drupal uses PHP to deliver much of its functionality. From version 8 onwards, Drupal relies on Symfony, which is a PHP-based framework. However, all versions of Drupal rely on PHP in some way.