| What is PHP? |
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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, visit http://www.php.net.
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
PHP and HTML interact a lot: PHP can generate HTML, and HTML can pass information to PHP.
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Looking for some more sample PHP scripts? PHP.NET's links page lists some archives of sample PHP code - great places to find many example scripts and useful functions, organized for your searching pleasure! |
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