Introduction to PHP (Free course)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

The best things in using PHP are that it is extremely simple for a newcomer, but offers many advanced features for a professional programmer. Don't be afraid reading the long list of PHP's features. You can jump in, in a short time, and start writing simple scripts in a few hours.

Although PHP's development is focused on server-side scripting, you can do much more with it. The course capture basics on, and see more in the What can PHP do? section, or go right to the introductory tutorial if you are only interested in web programming.

To get a feel for PHP, first start with simple PHP scripts. Since "Hello, World!" is an essential example, first we will create a friendly little "Hello, World!" script.

PHP is a server side scripting language that is embedded in HTML. It is used to manage dynamic content, databases, session tracking, even build entire e-commerce sites.

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Tags and Syntax. PHP commands are embedded into HTML by one of several ways.

In general, PHP is regarded as an easy programming language to master for people just starting to learn to program. As with any programming language, PHP has rules of coding, abbreviations, and algorithms. Learning PHP will be easy or challenging depending on how you approach learning the language itself.