Introduction to PHPPresenter: Suraj Motee

What is PHP?

PHP is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.

A PHP script is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent back to the browser.

Syntax

The default file extension for PHP files is ".php".

A PHP script starts with <?php and ends with ?>

<?php// PHP code goes here?>

HTML & PHP

A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, and some PHP scripting code.

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Comments

/* */

#

//

Case sensitive

PHP is not case sensitive except variables name.

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