INTRODUCTION
A number of years ago, before I started using PHP, I created dynamic web pages using C. This really wasn't too different from some of the other options available at the time, though it seems almost unthinkable now. Creating a dynamic page meant outputting HTML from your script and recompiling that script if any changes needed to be made. What PHP had to offer was the ability to embed server-side scripts into the body of a page wherever they were needed. This was a considerable improvement because it meant you could code the HTML as HTML and insert scripting when required. Introducing changes was much easier, and since PHP is an interpreted language, there was no need for recompilation.
The paths to using PHP are many and varied, ...
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