Welcome to computer programmer 2
- 1. Welcome to Computer Programmer 2 PHP Language Prepared By: Analyn G. Regaton
- 2. Why you should learn PHP? PHP is an open-source programming language that is completely free, and because it supports all the main browsers, it is highly accessible. PHP is also cost-efficient and works extremely well with JavaScript. With this combination, functional and good-looking websites are easy to build. Paired with framework like Laravel and other frameworks. It also supports a wide range of databases such as MYSQL, ORACLE and many more. Aside from that PHP has a big role in Web Development.
- 3. What You Should Already Know Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following: • HTML • CSS • JavaScrip What is PHP? • PHP is an acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" • PHP is a widely-used, open source scripting language • PHP scripts are executed on the server
- 4. PHP is an amazing and popular language! It is powerful enough to be at the core of the biggest blogging system on the web (WordPress)! It is deep enough to run large social networks! It is also easy enough to be a beginner's first server side language!
- 5. What is a PHP File? • PHP files can contain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code • PHP code is executed on the server, and the result is returned to the browser as plain HTML • PHP files have extension ".php"
- 6. What Can PHP Do? • PHP can generate dynamic page content • PHP can create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server • PHP can collect form data • PHP can send and receive cookies • PHP can add, delete, modify data in your database • PHP can be used to control user-access • PHP can encrypt data With PHP you are not limited to output HTML. You can output images, PDF files, and even Flash movies. You can also output any text, such as XHTML and XML.
- 7. Why PHP? • PHP runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.) • PHP is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.) • PHP supports a wide range of databases • PHP is free. Download it from the official PHP resource: www.php.net • PHP is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side