Short description of PHP
PHP is server-side:
Your browser doesn't realise the pages it is viewing are initially written with PHP. All it receives is an HTML page - as complex or as simple as you want.
PHP is HTML-embedded:
A PHP page can be simply an HTML page with a little PHP sprinkled here and there (we'll see how).
The PHP bits are parsed ("translated") by the server - in the examples presented here, they will be mainly used to produce more HTML code. The HTML code on the page is sent directly to the browser.
PHP has similarities with other programming languages:
C and Perl are two of them. In my case, learning a bit of Perl really helped me get started and understand what PHP could do for me - and how it worked.
Inserting PHP code in HTML
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