Introduction to PHP

Posted on 10. Dec, 2007 by tutorials007 in Archive 1,140 views

Are you ready to become a PHP web developer? Are you ready to spend few hours and to get in touch with PHP?
If you are then read the rest of this tutorial and you will not regret.

What is PHP?
PHP is an open source server side scripting language.
PHP is an scripting language that is used to create dynamic HTML page before uit is sent to a client.
We’re talking about working with templates.
Generating content with PHP client can’t see the code we used to create something, client
sees only HTML code -> result of our script.

PHP is one of the most used scripting technologies that are in use today.
In PHP is a lot of same functions as in some others scripting languages like C or PERL.
This means that you can make one process with differnt functions.

Ex.1

<?

Echo ‘tutorials007.com – introduction to php’;

?>

and

<?

printr(‘tutorials007.com – introduction to php’);

?>

These two functions will give the same result:
tutorials007.com – introduction to phpt

One more important thing is that PHP is rich with functions that allow us to manipulate with different content types like
some graphics, loading .NET modules, work with XML…etc.
PHP vs. ASP

First difference between those two scripting technologies is that ASP isn’t a scripting language all by himself. It’s a group of connected objects
which we can get with VB or JavaScript.
PHP vs. PERL

Main difference between those two languages is that PHP is mainly used for web programming while PERL has wider use…