Php
- Server side programming language
- frameworks
- php.net
- LAMP
- error logs /cat /var/log/apache2/error.log / run file
Hello World
- mixing
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>PHP Test</title>
<?php
echo 'Hello World';
?>
Mixing with HTML
<?php
// this is a PHP comment
$myHeader = "Header made with echo";
echo "<h3>".$myHeader."</h3>";
?>
<!-- Is similar to (note HTML comment) -->
<?php $myHeader2 = "Header made with with HTML"; ?>
<h3> <?php echo $myHeader2; ?> </h3>
Syntax
function myFunction() { //declares a function, this is named myFunction
return 'John Doe'; //returns the value 'John Doe'
}
echo 'My name is ' . myFunction() . '!'; //outputs the text concatenated with the return value of myFunction.
//myFunction is called as a result of this syntax.
//The result of the output will be 'My name is John Doe!'