PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a widely-used, opsource scripting language. It is similar in syntax to C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly .PHP scripts are executed on the server and return the html or plain text to the browser
There are various reason why PHP is so famous and used in all web development projects. The largest blogging platform wordpress is built over PHP
1) it runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X,Solaris,Exalogic,ibm etc.)
2) it is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache etc.)
3) it supports a wide range of databases. It can connect to oracle,mysql,sqlserver,sqllite etc
4) it is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net
5) PHP learning curve is quite simple and we can use it quite efficiently as a language of website
This catagory contains articles on all the features on PHP, PHP coding
Print/echo statement (1) Like python or other programming language, Print in PHP or echo in PHP does the same job i.e printing the statement on the screen Example <?php print “This is php script”; echo ” This is php script”; ?> This is php script This is php script So it is obvious from the …
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Today in this post, I would talk about Handling HTML forms with PHP. A simple example would be registration form. Lets create a html form with php We can save this file as myregistration.html and When you will open it you will get below html form. When you fill the data and click the submit …
PHP has lot of in-built Functions for use. PHP also provides opportunity to create use defined function also as available with other programming languages. We will discussing here the various type of User defined PHP Functions What is a function? A function is a piece of code which takes one more input in the form …
Here are detailed working on useful PHP string functions strlen() The PHP strlen() function returns the length of a string.The example below returns the length of the string “john”Example <?php echo strlen(“John”); ?> Output 4 Chr() Converts an ASCII value to its equivalent character Example The ASCII value 46 is the & symbol <?php $str …
Website design require header,footer,side bar,right bar, ad bar on multiple pages.It is not possible to change these on thousand of web pages whenever we want to change anything. Include function in php solve this problem. We can use include function in PHP and include the content of a PHP file into another PHP file before …
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We know that it is a web server that processes a PHP file before sending the processed results to the web browser. But the question is how does a server know whether a file is a PHP file or not. Answer is by default servers look for PHP only in files that end with the …
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