PHP for Beginners: Become a PHP Master | Course 2022 PART-1

Install XAMPP on Windows and download the latest version, complete setup. Start Apache and MySQL from the control panel to access phpMyAdmin and local host for index.php projects.

Install and configure Visual Studio Code on Windows, add the PHP extension and set the PHP executable path, then write and run a simple index.php using localhost.

learn to embed php in html using vscode, set up a basic html document with utf-8 and viewport meta tags, and write a php block with <?php ... ?>.

Learn how echo prints strings in PHP as a statement, not a function, using single or double quotes, and how multiple parameters and variables are handled.

Learn how to use the PHP print statement, compare echo and print, and master string concatenation with dots, variable usage with $, and single versus double quotes.

Discover the differences between echo and print in PHP, including multi-argument usage with echo, return values and performance comparisons, and how variables, concatenation, and string output are handled.

Explore how to use PHP comments to describe and hide code, including single-line comments with // and #, and multi-line comments with /* ... */ through practical examples.

Explore how to implement new line breaks in PHP by using a line-break function to insert HTML breaks, compare with newline characters, and see how printing affects line separation.

Learn how to declare PHP variables with a dollar sign, assign strings and numbers, use concatenation, and follow naming rules like underscores, case sensitivity, and not starting with a number.

Explain single dollar variables and double dollar reference variables in PHP, showing how a double dollar references a single variable's value and how concatenation and echo display results.

Explore PHP data types, including predefined, user defined, and special types such as boolean, integer, float, string, array, object, resource, and null.

Learn how to define constants in PHP using the define function and the const keyword, print them with echo, and understand that constants cannot change during script execution.

Learn how PHP include and require reuse files with relative or absolute paths, and how their failure modes differ: include warns and continues, while require stops with a fatal error.

Learn how include, include_once, require, and require_once work in PHP. Understand how include and require produce warnings or fatal errors, and how include_once and require_once load files only once.