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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Learning PHP Coding Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting comfy with PHP

Bullet Building PHP expressions

Bullet Controlling PHP code

Bullet Figuring out functions and objects

Bullet Debugging PHP

In the end, what I think set PHP apart in the early days, and still does today, is that it always tries to find the shortest path to solving the Web problem … When you need something up and working by Friday so you don’t have to spend all weekend leafing through 800-page manuals, PHP starts to look pretty good.

— RASMUS LERDORF, CREATOR OF PHP

You code the front end of a web project using tools such as HTML and CSS (see Book 2), and JavaScript (see Book 3). You can build awesome web pages using just those front-end tools, but if you want to build pages that are dynamic and applike, you need to bring in the back end and use it to harness the power of the web server.

For web projects, the back end most often means storing data in a MySQL database and accessing that data by using the PHP programming language. I cover ...

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