Why to use PHP

PHP For Beginners

PHP is an open source object oriented programming language.

PHP is server side scripting language. Easy to learn. Syntax similar to C language. Easily embedded into HTML to create

dynamic web page contents.

About PHP

Website development. Command line scripting. Writing desktop applications.

Use of PHP

Linux. Microsoft Windows. Mac. And many others.

Operating Systems

Apache . Microsoft Internet Information Server. And many others.

Webserver Support

Outputting XHTML and XML files. Outputting images, pdf files, Flash

movies, etc.

Abilities of PHP

MySQL MS-SQL InterBase Oracle SQLite PostgreSQL And many others.

Database Support

PHP supports Open Database Connection standard.

Easily connect to database supporting these standards.

ODBC Support

String functions Array functions Date functions Math functions

Large Number of Built-In Functions

Joomla Drupal Coppermine Photo Gallery Wordpress Blog

Popular Open Source Applications

Popular Frameworks

Cake PHP Zend Framework Symfony CodeIgniter

www.yahoo.com www.facebook.com www.amazon.com www.digg.com www.wikipedia.org

Popular Sites Using php

How To Use PHP

Download from http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Use XAMPP or WAMP which has Apache, MySQL and PHP in built.

Installation

Scripting block starts with <?php and ends with ?>

Example

Syntax

Use // for single line comment /* */ to make large comment block. Example<?php

//This is a comment

/*This isa commentblock*/

?>

Comments in PHP

Start with $ sign follwed by variable name.

Variable name starts with (_) underscore or letter.

Example : $name, $_name, etc

Variables

Popular Sites to Learn PHP

http://www.php.net/manual/ http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/

php.html

http://www.wikipedia.org PHP Manuals

References