Chapter 1
Getting Started on the Server
In This Chapter
Introducing server-side programming
Testing your installation
Inspecting phpinfo( )
Writing HTML with embedded PHP
Understanding various types of quotation
Managing concatenation and interpolation
Using heredocs to simplify coding
Welcome to the server-side programming portion of the book. In this minibook, you discover all the basics of PHP and how you can use PHP to make your pages dynamic and relevant in today's Internet.
In this chapter, you read about getting your server set up and ready to go. I walk you through the process as painlessly as possible, and by the end, you'll be up and running, and ready to serve up your own web pages in a test environment. (I talk about making them available to the rest of the world in Book ...
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