As we all know that Programming in PHP is fun and easy. It is a very powerful scripting language that takes simple HTML and turns it into a fully-interactive experience for the web user. Let's get started! Note: These tutorials assume that you have a working web server that's capable of displaying PHP code and that you have PHP installed on that web server system or that you're using a server that is equipped and ready. You can run PHP on Windows. You can even use PHP with IIS (The Windows Web Server) so you don't necessarily need Unix/Linux and Apache. PHP Reference Your best reference for all things PHP is the PHP web site: www.php.net. Go there and bookmark it--you'll refer to it often. PHP Speaks HTML The first thing you have to learn and always remember is that if you use even one line of PHP code in an HTML file, you must name the file with a .php extension. The .php extension tells the web server that this file is special and needs special handling by the PHP executable and related libraries. Delimit Your PHP Second, all PHP functions and code must be inserted between the following delimiters PHP Syntax --the less than question mark opens the code and the question mark greater than close. You must always use delimiters in pairs--an opening delimiter and closing delimiter. Delimiters are symbols that tell the web server what kind of content follows and how it should be handled. HTML uses delimiters too PHP Syntax . Example 1: How About a Date? If you want to add the current date to a web page, the code would look like: Explanation: The 'echo' command tells the PHP program to echo the results that follow to the screen. Since you're using HTML and the browser is your "screen", that's where you see the results. The date function is a built-in PHP program that display the date in the format you specify in the parentheses. Save the file with the filename, test.php. Open the file by pointing your browser to the file on the webserver and you should see: Jan-19-2009 (you'll see the current date) Try changing the date format by moving things around ("d-M-Y") or just using one of the date variables ("Y"). Refer to the PHP documentation to get a full range of date variables. It's fun and useful. The full list of PHP date-related functions are here. Example 2: Who's Looking at You, Kid? If you want to gather some info about the people that are looking at your site or if you just want to let them know you're watching, you can easily echo some of their information back to them by using what's known as Server Variables. Note: This is not personal information, nor are you stealing anything from them. It is information that is transferred to your website when a visitor connects to your webpages. You can get their IP Address and their Browser and Computer information. The IP Address is how computers communicate with each other on the Internet--think of it as kind of like a phone number or home address. To see this information, edit your test.php file again and enter the following: PHP Syntax Explanation: The line is HTML for start a new Paragraph. The next line, echo "Your IP Address is " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; sends the text, "Your IP Address is " to your browser. The dot (.) is PHP for concatenate or connect these two things. $SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is a built-in Server variable that echoes the viewing browser's IP Address to their browser. Save this file and point your browser to test.php. You should see: Jan-19-2009 (Current Date) Your IP Address is 10.0.1.200 (The IP Address of Your Computer) There are several variables from which to choose here. The complete list is located at: PHP:$_SERVER. Change the Server variable or add new ones. For starters, try: HTTP_USER_AGENT to see your browser and computer information. Stay tuned for PHP Tutorial Part Two: Combining HTML and PHP where you'll get a taste of how to integrate these two languages in a more elegant fashion. Don't worry, it's easy and you'll like the way it works. It's easier to read and more fun to write. Some Suggested Site for PHP Learning: http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp http://learnphp.org http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ http://www.learnphponline.com/ http://www.php-learn-it.com/ http://www.killerphp.com/videos/ http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp Will Continue this series if i get support from you friends!
A PHP scripting block always starts with <?php and ends with ?>. A PHP scripting block can be placed anywhere in the document. On servers with shorthand support enabled you can start a scripting block with <? and end with ?>. For maximum compatibility, we recommend that you use the standard form (<?php) rather than the shorthand form. A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, just like an HTML file, and some PHP scripting code. Below, we have an example of a simple PHP script which sends the text "Hello World" to the browser: Each code line in PHP must end with a semicolon. The semicolon is a separator and is used to distinguish one set of instructions from another. There are two basic statements to output text with PHP: echo and print. In the example above we have used the echo statement to output the text "Hello World". Note: The file must have a .php extension. If the file has a .html extension, the PHP code will not be executed.
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