A PHP script is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent back to the browser.
Basic PHP Syntax
A PHP script can be placed anywhere in the document.
A PHP script starts with <?php
and ends with ?>
:
<?php // PHP code goes here ?>
The default file extension for PHP files is “.php
“.
A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, and some PHP scripting code.
Below, we have an example of a simple PHP file, with a PHP script that uses a built-in PHP function “echo
” to output the text “Hello World!” on a web page: Continue reading PHP Syntax