1st PHP program

< html >
< body >

< ? php
echo "Hello World";
? >

< / body>
< / html>

PHP basics

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PHP code is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent to the browser.

PHP Syntax
A PHP scripting block always starts with . A PHP scripting block can be placed anywhere in the document.

How to install PHP on your computer,laptop.

Some operating system, such as Linux and some versions of Unix, come with PHP installed.

To test whether your computer has PHP already installed, use the following command:
php -v

If PHP is installed,you will get a response showing PHP creation date.

But in Windows OS,you generally have to install it, Windows Vista comes with PHP.

ISP running PHP list

List of ISPs already running PHP can be found here

PHP ISP list click here

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PHP full form- Hypertext Preprocessor

A Google search for PHP results in a 2,890,000,000 hits.

PHP is fast and easy to use,fast and easy to develop in. We can mingle it with HTML in our Web Pages.We can write it easier than other programming languages.

We don't need to compile it as we have to do with other languages,before executing it

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor but its original name was Personal Home Page

PHP has been around for quite sometime, it was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994.

PHP 6 is expected to have some major and minor changes- support for Unicode. Unicode (www.unicode.org)is a character set that's designed to encompass many of the world's languages,unlike PHP today.

Why Blog PHP 5.2 ?

I am blogging since 11th Feb 2008 and quite use to of playing around with the HTML code at Blogger.com.

Then tried blogging at Fatcow.com with my first site All of My Interest.com, using weebly editor there.

Quite dissatisfied. Biggest disadvantage I don't get the HTML code to play around which makes me feel very restricted and suffocated.

So thought of designing my own website. I am an Oracle and Sun certified Java programmer but this combination of database and programming language is out of my pocket, budget.

For my websites , I totally rely on my online earnings to handle the expenditure and if I continue with Oracle / Java, it won't take time to convert my online earnings "only" into online expenditure.

Then whats better then PHP....... PHP - MySQL . Safest and cheapest Bet. :)

Why blogging PHP ? Because as I picked up the PHP book and started reading, I felt need to make notes...picked up a pen and my palm itched. It has been 2.5yrs now for my blogging and so my fingers are more accustomed to typing then writing by pen. So this blog is actually my notes from the PHP book.

Keeping safe my PHP notes from Water,fire, rats as I am posting them online :)