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A PHP script is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent back to the browser.
A PHP script can be placed anywhere in the document.
A PHP script starts with <?php
and ends with ?>
:
<?php // Your code goes here ?>
The default file extension for PHP files is ".php
".
A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, and some PHP scripting code.
Below, we have an example of a simple PHP file, with a PHP script that uses a built-in PHP function "echo
" to output the text "Hello World!" on a web page:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>My first PHP page</h1> <?php echo "Hello World!"; ?> </body> </html>
Note: PHP statements end with a semicolon (;)
.
A comment is the portion of a program that exists only for the human reader and stripped out before displaying the programs result. There are two commenting formats in PHP −
for more details, View below code
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <?php // This is a single-line comment # This is also a single-line comment /* This is a multiple-lines comment block that spans over multiple lines */ // You can also use comments to leave out parts of a code line $x = 5 /* + 15 */ + 5; echo $x; ?> </body> </html>
In PHP, NO keywords (e.g. if
, else
, while
, echo
, etc.), classes, functions, and user-defined functions are case-sensitive.
In the example below, all three echo statements below are legal (and equal):
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <?php ECHO "Hello World!<br>"; echo "Hello World!<br>"; EcHo "Hello World!<br>"; ?> </body> </html>
Tips: However; all variable names are case-sensitive.
In the example below, only the first statement will display the value of the $color
variable (this is because $color
, $COLOR
, and $coLOR
are treated as three different variables):
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <?php $color = "red"; echo "My car is " . $color . "<br>"; echo "My house is " . $COLOR . "<br>"; echo "My boat is " . $coLOR . "<br>"; ?> </body> </html>