Here's a quick tutorial on how to setup Nginx with PHP support. The key? The installation of fastCGI, aka PHP-FPM, so Nginx can serve PHP files to clients.

First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) file to accept the data and insert it into the database.

And that’s it, you’ve got NGINX up and running with PHP-FPM support. Remember, when you build your virtualhost configuration files, you’ll need to make sure to include PHP support in those.