Commenting In PHP

The PHP comment syntax always begins with a special character sequence and all text that appears between the start of the comment and the end will be ignored by the browser.

PHP’s comments will not be displayed to your visitors when they visit the your page. The only way to view PHP comments is to open the PHP file for editing. This makes PHP comments only useful to PHP programmers. (more…)

Data Types in PHP

In PHP the data type of a variable is not set by the programmer. PHP decides the data type of variables after interpreting the web page. Data Types in PHP include:

Numeric data type
String data type
Array data type
Numeric data type (more…)

Variables in PHP

In this Tutorial we will learn about Variables and Data Types in PHP.

What is a Variable?

Variables are nothing but identifiers to the memory location to store data. We can create any number of variables. In PHP all the variables begin with a dollar sign “$” and the value can be assigned using the “=” operator as shown below: (more…)

Writing PHP

Writing PHP on your computer is actually very simple. You don’t need any specail software, except for a text editor (like Notepad in Windows). Run this and you are ready to write your first PHP script.

Structure of PHP program

PHP program must between < ?php and ……?> tags. Some programmer prefer to work like < ? ….?> you can use any of them. (more…)

What is PHP?

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is a server-side scripting language. This means that the script will run on your web server, not on the user’s browser, so you do not need to worry about compatibility issues. PHP is relatively new but is quickly becoming one of the most popular scripting languages on the internet and among the programmers. (more…)