What is PHP?
PHP is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.
PHP is a widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to
competitors such as Microsoft's ASP.
PHP is an
acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
PHP is a
widely-used, open source scripting language
PHP scripts
are executed on the server
PHP is free to
download and use
PHP file has
the extension ".php"
What Can PHP Do?
PHP can generate
dynamic page content
PHP can create,
open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server
PHP can collect
form data
PHP can send and
receive cookies
PHP can add,
delete, modify data in your database
PHP can be used to control user-access
PHP can encrypt
data
With PHP you are not limited to output HTML. You can output
images, PDF files, and even Flash movies. You can also output any text, such as
XHTML and XML.
PHP has the following advantages:
PHP runs on
various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
PHP is compatible
with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
PHP supports a
wide range of databases
PHP is free.
Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
PHP is easy to
learn and runs efficiently on the server side
How can i get started?
To setup php on your PC, you need to perform the following
steps:
Get a
software tool for localhost server to run on your pc
Install
and make some connections
Test
your connections
Start
running php script on your pc
To get a software and start running php on your pc, firstly
Xamp or Wamp is mostly used software to run php script and here we are going to
use wampServer to test and run our php script. To get wampserver click on the link below, locate and click
the download option.
INSTALLING:
After downloading, double click to start installing, follow
the guides and installation directions to finish installing.
TEST YOUR CONNECTIONS:
After installing, type 127.0.0.1 into your url browser, if
it does display a page like the image below with no error message, that means you are good
to go, else you need to make some more modifications in the php.ini file,
search or find localhost then add a four figure to it. e.g localhost:8080
Now restart your server and re-run the code.
To
start coding with php on your machine, type the following code below
into a notepad and save it as hello.php into the www root directory
folder, from the Local Disk (C:) you will see wamp folder, open the it
and save the hello.php into the www folder. Now go back to your browser
and type localhost/hello.php it should now display "Hello World" if you
set up your environment properly, no error message would be thrown.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
$Hello
= "Hello world.";
echo $Hello;
?>
</body>
</html>
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cool testing..
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