PHP (Server-Side Scripting language)
PHP language stands for “PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor” The most widely-used, open-source, and script language. All PHP scripts are executed on the server. It can be run on different platforms like:- Windows
- Linux
- Unix
- Mac OS X etc.
- Apache
- It also supports various types of databases.
PHP Syntax
PHP script starts with <?php Code written here… ?> The extension for PHP files is “.php”. Normally a PHP FILE contains HTML tags, and some PHP scripting code. Below, there is an example of a code, with a PHP script that uses a built-in PHP function “echo” for print out the text “Script Language” on a web page: Example
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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h2>PHP Page</h2> <?php echo "Script Language"; ?> </body> </html> |
Code | Comments |
<html> | Starting with HTML tags |
<h2></h2> | Head (heading 2)opening and closing of head |
<?php | Starting php |
echo | Built in function to print the text |
?> | Closing of php |