Understanding PHP, HTML, and White Space
Before I get any further into the depths of using PHP to send HTML and other data to the Web browser, it’s important to fully comprehend the PHP process. With PHP you can send data (a combination of HTML tags and text) to the Web browser, which will, in turn, display it as the Web page the end user sees. Thus, what you are doing with PHP is creating the HTML source of a Web page. Pictorially, this means PHP is generating the HTML in Figure 1.6 (accessed by choosing View > Source or View > Page Source in your browser), which the Web browser will turn into Figure 1.7.
Figure 1.6. You’ll use PHP to generate the HTML source of a Web page (like this)…
Figure 1.7. …which the Web browser ...
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