PHP 8 - Introduction

What is PHP?

• PHP is a server side scripting language (executed on the server)
• It is very powerful to make dynamic and interactive Website.
• Free to download and use
• It is widely used e.g. Facebook (most popular social site), Wordpress (most popular CMS)
• It is easy to learn
• Can work with multiple Databases even though MySQL is native
• Most Web hosting supports PHP, and even cost effective price compare to other languages (e.g. .NET)

Prerequisites:

You need to have basic understanding of the following:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

The Server execute PHP script/file and output HTML which is display to client browser. PHP tags themselves are not case-sensitive but it is recommened. Each line is end with semi-colon(;). The following is an example of a simple PHP code

Hello World.

The following code show a basic example of PHP code that output the string Hello world to the browser.

In the tutorial, we are going to build products listing page