whitespirit 0 Report post Posted July 5, 2005 (edited) What is php? Notice from BuffaloHELP: Posted topic in the wrong section. Your question does not belong in What Is? Please read the forum and posting rules. Warning issued. Moving to Programming Language section. Edited July 5, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Inspiron 0 Report post Posted July 5, 2005 PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saint_Michael 3 Report post Posted July 5, 2005 and as many possible way to be used if you know who look at ipb forum nothing but php scripting and some minor html. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
electriic ink 1 Report post Posted July 5, 2005 PHP is another and more advanced way of writing a web pages. All pages must end with the file extension .php just like when you write html, all pages must end with .htm / .html . There are lots of other languages which do roughly the same things as php, such as JSP, ASP and PERL. Xisto has all of these languages except ASP. The great thing about these languages is that they are server-sided which means that they run at the server so, unlike javascript, the user doesn't have to download any extra files to look at your php webpages. You may have seen urls in many webpages such as this ( http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/?id=1 ) Our good friend php helps us to construct these types of pages. HTML cannot do this: <? if ($_REQUEST["id"] == "1") { echo "Hello"; } ?> Lets start with the basics. All PHP code must have <? ?> (shown in red) round it just like all html coding but have <html> </html> round it. This tells php that there is gonna be some php code coming. Now the part in blue and black basically says to php that if in the url id=1 can be found it must perform the following action. The very important parts you must notice are the brackets the two equal signs and the {. This may seem very compucated to someone who has not done php before (I know this) but I promise you you will get the hang of it. But, there's still more to come! The part in green tells us what php must do if id=1 is found in the url. This says echo "Hello";. Echo tells php it must write something. What it must write can be found in the speech marks. Notice ; is one the end. This is mandatory and echo will not work without this. Now we have the }. This tells php to stop performing the action if id=1 can be found in the url. Next is the red ?> and this tells php that there's no more php code till <? is found again, if it is found again. If you wish to learn more about php. Here are some good resources: http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp http://php.net/ Hope you understood it cmatcmextra Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ao)K-General 0 Report post Posted July 9, 2005 Well actually I have something to say to that. I am a noob at php but I know that it would example.com/file.php?view=id=1 or something like that. And also. I don't know if it would work with <? I learned it that you have to write it <?php and end it with ?> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
electriic ink 1 Report post Posted July 9, 2005 Well actually I have something to say to that. I am a noob at php but I know that it would example.com/file.php?view=id=1 or something like that. And also. I don't know if it would work with <? I learned it that you have to write it <?php and end it with ?> 159091[/snapback] Both <? <?php are acceptable ways of starting php. I don't know why but most people tend to start php like this { <?php } but I tend to start it the other way because it's faster to type. Your script will work using both of these methods. Butphp must always end with ?> never php?> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
engalex 0 Report post Posted July 19, 2005 php most good lamguage to programming ur websiteby it u can programe dynamic siteas ipb forums and phpbb and vb etc..and websitephpnuke etc... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karlo 0 Report post Posted July 19, 2005 PHP is a wonderful and fast and easy to learn programming language.. and it's free... many website uses it so it's popular... and when they know that you use PHP, it means you are a powerful programmer... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
