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About PHP

PHP is an acronym of hypertext preprocessor. It is a server side language through which we can make a dynamic web page by embedding PHP code into HTML. To run PHP pages you need to have following installation on your system/machine.

OS (Operating System) -> Windows/Linux
Server -> IIS/Apache
Database -> MySQL, MSSQL, ORACLE, MSACCESS, PostgreSQL etc.
PHP -> PHP Installation on System

You can easily run PHP on Windows by installing WAMP server. WAMP stands for Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP and popularly used as development platform next to LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP).

A sample PHP page script starts as follows:
=========CODE BEGINS========

<?php // PHP Begins
echo 'Hello World'; //(echo) Print Output on Screen
?> //PHP Ends

=========CODE ENDS==========

There are various support and tutorials available for PHP. Some popular resources are:
http://www.php.net (PHP site)
http://www.mysql.com (MySQL site)
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP (PHP Tutorials)

A very useful post, especially to beginners to the PHP coding world. It's good to see some sites to start off and ones which have sections and step by step tutorials covering various things.

Hmm, I learned PHP once... But now I forgot it, since I had to catch up on my school work. >_<

I had one of my friends teach me it too, then he stopped being active. >_<

By the way, Thanks for the tut's, really will help me remember. ^^

Thanks.

Ive wanted to learn C++ but it's very confusing, so I think I'm going to try PHP for now.

i think this is not the right place for this topic

I don't think you needed to bump the thread just to say that.

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP
Is realy good
I use It too

, i kinda know that
whats other stuff, array, database etc,
you not xplain them

Really a great post.Thanks for sharing.It will help me a lot.

(01-28-2009 08:19 AM)IT LEGEND KILLER Wrote: [ -> ], i kinda know that
whats other stuff, array, database etc,
you not xplain them

Is it time for baby's baba?
Actually ... I understand what you mean.

You should have seen me the other day trying to make a php forms page to work.
I kinda wish some one could have spoon-feed me then.