To Display contents

One:(Using echo)

<?php

echo "This is sample";

?>

Two:(concatenation of 2 strings)

<?php

echo "<b>Hello</b>"." This is sample";

?>

Three : (Using print)

<?php

$var1="Hello...Howdy?";

print($var1);

?>

Note:

We can use html tags ,inside of "".

PHP Introduction

PHP Introduction

PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP scripts are executed on the server. PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC,Microsoft SQL Server, etc.). Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

PHP is:

• PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language
• PHP is an open source software
• PHP is free to download and use (PHP resource: www.php.net)

Why PHP?

• PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.)
• PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.)
• PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side
• Reduce the time to create large websites
• Create a customized user experience for visitors based on information that you have gathered from them
• Open up thousands of possibilities for online tools
• Allow creation of e-commerce websites