PHP Tutorials

Introduction

PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded, cross-platform scripting language - quite a mouthful. In simpler terms, PHP provides a way for you to put instructions in your HTML files to create dynamic content. These instructions are read and parsed by the Web server; they never actually make it to the browser that is displaying the page. The Web server replaces your PHP code with the content that the code was written to produce.

PHP can be utilized to allow for the displaying of the current date and time on your Web site, as well as for monitor server status, as our server status monitor presently does. Combining PHP along with other items such and HTML, JavaScript, Java, or even a database backend, the limits to what you can accomplish utilizing PHP are almost completely limitless.

PHP AND MYSQL

When you use PHP and MySQL together, you can exapnd your web site to take advantage of such items as forums, link directories, banner ad rotation, and other items freely available at various locations across the Internet. You can also create your own items.

Date & Time
File Inclusion
Basic Output
Using Quotes (Double vs. Single)