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Php Introduction
What is Php?
PHP is scripting language to produce dynamic web pages. PHP is acronym for PHP Hypertext Processor.
Php is powerful language in which you can produce dynamic webpages. It is most useful in creating large websites.
When a visitor visits the php page the webserver process the php page and returns as html code which the visitor views it in a web browser. It is recommended for your to learn html before learning php.
Php files contain normal html tags. They have php code embedded in between.Some important features of php are
- It is sever side scripting language
- The scripts are executed on server so user doesnot see your code
- You can integrate with a database and fetch data from database like mysql
- Php is opensource and easy to use,install and free to download
This is long tutorial so don't read the whole tutorial in one sitting. Traditional programming experience (not required ) can make php learning easy.
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Installation and Software
You can download php and install it for free from here for windows. But you need apache server to be installed. Yo practise php or develop webpages in php you need access to a webserver that supports php or you need to install one server on your computer. I highly recommend to use XAMPP which is pre-configured apache and mysql with php. Download XAMPP here
Also we highly recommend to use Notepad++ to edit your php files. Notepad++ has lots of great features like syntax highligting and character matching. You can download Notepad ++ Here. It is free and opensource project.
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Php Editors
This is the list of php editors with which you can develop php
Windows
Linux
- Blue Fish
- Gedit
- GphpEdit
- Quanta Plus
Php IDE
There are many commercial PHP Integrated Development Enviroment applications available. But there are really good quality opensource IDE like Netbeans which are are more than enough for your web development.
Click Here for a video tutorial on How to use netbeans.
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