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Introduction

In this tutorial, you will learn about PHP, i will start with this and then make more parts to it until i have completed a few parts which will cover the whole range of PHP. I hope you will learn lots from this tutorial and when you finish you will know loads. I have benefited from learning this way and that's why i have written it out as a tutorial for others to learn from.

Start Off PHP

Now to start off create a page with any name, it doesn't really matter. However you need to make the page end it .php
When you are using PHP, you need to define it and tell the page you are using it, so this is kind of like :

and

However in PHP, to start off a PHP script you use:

or

and to close it you use

In this case we will be using the first choice so inside your page place this code.


Inside these brackets with question marks you can place any php stuff you like.

Echo

Then let's say you want to input some text, in PHP there are 4 ways

(Note that die will shut down the rest of your script so nothing else below it will run, making it useful for errors and things.)
But for now you do not need to know them so we will be using echo.
So in between the brackets insert the echo which would look like this.

You can also change the quotations to single's eg

These both would show up like this:

but don't worry about that for now.

Variables

In PHP there are such things called variables, these define a certain object.
To cut it down into baby language imagine you have a file in your "My Documents" folder, then, placing the variable into a echo is like making a shorcut on your desktop.
In This example we will be changing the "Hello" text into a variable then place the variable into the echo to show on the page, i have broken this down into steps to explain it.

Step 1: Open the PHP brackets

Step 2: Make a variable called greeting

Step 3: Define whats happening in the variable so in this case we would say we want text to show up saying "Hello"

Step 4: Echo this variable

Step 5: Close the PHP Brackets


So, altogether that would look like this:

This to would end up looking like this on a page


That's the end for part 1, look out for part 2 where i will more like the if command and if..else command as well as more in depth explanations of PHP.

Enjoy!

You miss some things out, like where you can open and close, why you need <?php and ;, but otherwise good.

Very good tutorial for php very good and short even though I think it would have been better if it had more details using more codings.

i gave this page to my friend and he likes it!