November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
15h 24m
English
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Chapter 1. PHP: What, Why, and Where?
PHP is ultimately just text that is taken by your web server and turned into a set of commands and information for your web browser. And because you’re just working in text, there’s not a lot you have to do to get going as a PHP programmer. You need to become familiar with PHP itself, and the best way to do that is to install PHP on your own computer as well as becoming familiar with how PHP runs on a remote web server.
Then, you need to run an actual script. Don’t worry; it’s amazingly easy to write your first program in PHP. Not only that, you’ll run your script, upload it to your web server, and access your script with a web browser…and that’s all in the first two chapters!
Throughout the process, you’ll begin taking control. With PHP, you become an active participant in your web pages. PHP lets you listen carefully to your users and say something back. So get going; there’s no reason to leave your users with passive HTML pages any longer.
PHP Comes in Two Flavors: Local and Remote
One of the most difficult things to get a handle on when it comes to PHP programming doesn’t have much to do with programming at all. It’s figuring out just how PHP runs, how it interacts with your web browser and web server, and why it’s not possible to just double-click a PHP file on your hard drive and see the script in that file run.
HTML and CSS Run Within a Web Browser
First, it’s worth thinking back to when you were a wee programmer, writing your first HTML page. ...
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