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Introduction of PHP
By Umar Farooque Khan
http://www.ptutorial.com

What is PHP?
• PHP stand for hypertext pre-processor.
# PHP is a general purpose server side scripting language
that is basically used for web development.
# PHP script run on web server.
# PHP is used for dynamic web page creation.
# PHP run on GUI based operating system as well as
Command based .
#PHP can easily embedded with HTML.
#Its freely available.
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Why PHP?
It’s fast
 It’s free
 It’s easy to use
 It’s versatile
 It’s secure
 It’s customizable
Interact with HTML forms
 Communicate with databases
 Generate secure Web pages
Easy to learn and implement.

Supported Databases
dBASE
 Informix
 Ingres
 Microsoft SQL Server
 mSQL
 MySQL
 Oracle
 PostgreSQL
 Sybase

Basic Syntax
<html>
<head>
<title>First Script of PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo “Welcome to the php word!";
echo “www.ptutorial.com”;
?>
</body>
</html>

Commenting in PHP
• PHP supports two type of commenting
1. Single line comment
<?php
echo “Comment in php"; // Single line Comment
#this also a single line comment
echo “www.ptutorial.com";
?>

Commenting continued in PHP
2. Multi line Comment
<?php
echo “Comment in php“;
echo “Multiple line comment";
/* this multi line comment
You can put any number of line */
echo “www.ptutorial.com";
?>

Echo Statement
• In PHP echo statement is used for deliver the string as well as variable
value on the browse, Following example explain the concept of echo
statement.
<?php
$number=38;
echo $number;
$str=“www.ptutorial.com”;
Echo $str;
?>

The Semicolon and Case Sensitivity
Every statement must be terminated with semicolon.
In PHP functions, classes, core language keywords are case-
insensitive.
<?php
Echo “www.ptutorial.com”; //case insensitive
?>

PHP Variables
Variables are just identifier that are used for storing data, like integer,
float, strings, arrays.
In PHP there is no need to declare before use.
Dollar sign is used at the time of making variable.

Rules of making PHP variable
It must be starts with dollar($) sign.
A valid variable name start with string or underscore after
dollar sign.
PHP variable can any length.
PHP variables are case sensitive.

Example of valid variable
$name=52;
$name_1=12;
$var145af=102;
$_php=586;
$a145=“java”;
$first_name_1=4875;

Example of PHP Variable
<?php
$txt=“www.ptutorial.com!";
$Number=152;
$a=18.5;
Echo $number . $a;
?>

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