1. Introducing PHP
Overview
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to work with PHP's built-in templating engine; write simple HTML files; run a PHP script from the command line; create and assign variables to print simple messages on the web browser; and run PHP's built-in web server on your machine.
Introduction
Welcome to the world of Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). PHP is a popular programming language that's used all over the internet to create web pages/websites and applications. A web page is a single page, while multiple web pages together are commonly referred to as a website or web application. PHP powers sites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress.
PHP was created as a scripting language to allow rich dynamic content ...
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