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Example #1 An Introductory Example: What Is PHP?

PHP is an open-source scripting language suited for web development that can be embedded into HTML. PHP code is enclosed in special tags and executed on the server before the results are sent to the client. While simple for newcomers, PHP also offers advanced features for professionals. It allows developers to output dynamic web page content by integrating server-side code into HTML pages.

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Example #1 An Introductory Example: What Is PHP?

PHP is an open-source scripting language suited for web development that can be embedded into HTML. PHP code is enclosed in special tags and executed on the server before the results are sent to the client. While simple for newcomers, PHP also offers advanced features for professionals. It allows developers to output dynamic web page content by integrating server-side code into HTML pages.

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What is PHP?

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.
Nice, but what does that mean? An example:
Example #1 An introductory example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>

</body>
</html>
Instead of lots of commands to output HTML (as seen in C or Perl), PHP pages
contain HTML with embedded code that does "something" (in this case, output
"Hi, I'm a PHP script!"). The PHP code is enclosed in special start and end
processing instructions <?php and ?> that allow you to jump into and out of "PHP
mode."
What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code
is executed on the server, generating HTML which is then sent to the client. The
client would receive the results of running that script, but would not know what
the underlying code was. You can even configure your web server to process all
your HTML files with PHP, and then there's really no way that users can tell what
you have up your sleeve.
The best things in using PHP are that it is extremely simple for a newcomer, but
offers many advanced features for a professional programmer. Don't be afraid
reading the long list of PHP's features. You can jump in, in a short time, and start
writing simple scripts in a few hours.
Although PHP's development is focused on server-side scripting, you can do much
more with it. Read on, and see more in the What can PHP do? section, or go right
to the introductory tutorial if you are only interested in web programming.
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