Well, you’ve already configured your software and now are ready to learn PHP. All your PHP documents must be saved with the *.php extension. Be sure to ask your hosts which PHP version is installed on their server. If it is PHP3.0, then save your PHP documents with the *.php3 extension, or ask your hosts if they could upgrade.
PHP code is embedded in your HTML script.
Almost every PHP command is ended with a semi-colon (;).
Your PHP code must be enclosed within the “<?” and “?>” or “<?php” and “?>” brackets.
An example:
<html>
<head><title>Example</title></head>
<body>
<?php
PRINT “<center>Hi! This is a PHP example.</center>”;
?>
</body>
</html>
The output in your browser would be:
Hi! This is a PHP example.
Well, we used PHP PRINT command that outputs all statements enclosed in double quotations (“). Notice that we placed HTML commands <center>…</center> within the PRINT statement and the HTML code was interpreted by the browser.
Sometimes it is very useful to insert comments into your PHP documents. Use one of these commands:
/* This is a multi line comment. */
// Another way to comment your script. This is a one-line comment.
# One more one-line comment.
Well, let’s go to the next tutorial PHP variables.