PHP 8 for Absolute Beginners: Basic Website and Web Application Development

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J. Lengstorf et al.PHP 8 for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8205-2_2

2. Understanding PHP: Language Basics

Jason Lengstorf¹  , Thomas Blom Hansen² and Steve Prettyman³

(1)

No 392, Portland, OR, USA

(2)

Kirke Saaby, Denmark

(3)

Palm Bay, FL, USA

 

Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Embed PHP in web pages

• Add comments in code

• Create and use variables

• Decipher PHP errors

• Create an HTML5 template

• Create and use basic objects

• Concatenate strings

• Access URL variables with $_GET

• Declare a class

• Embed CSS

In the first chapter, we developed our very first PHP program. While it was basic, we were able to test the development environment ...