Learning Objectives:

You will be able to identify the difference between HTML, PHP and JavaScript

You will be able to add PHP to a webpage to increase the functionality of the page.

Homework:

Read: W3Schools Tutorial on PHP7 (Home through Operators)

Read: W3Schools Tutorial on PHP 7 Forms

Read: PHP7 MySQL Database (Database through Create Table)

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Topics Covered:

Amazon.Com and MyYahoo are two examples of Dynamic Web sites that are created on demand by accessing a database and template.

We will be using a MySQL database with a table

PHP: Pre-Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP Declaration
<?php echo "PHP Code goes here"; ?>	Code block can start anywhere
PHP Variable Declaration
$txt="I love PHP";	All variables in PHP start with a $ sign symbol and then must have a letter or an underscore
PHP Echo
echo "Displaying PHP text";	echo displays on the screen instead of document.write() for Javascript

 

• PHP is a server-side scripting language like ASP but is open source (unlike ASP)
  
  
• PHP scripts are executed on the server (like ASP)
  
  
• PHP supports many databases but the database of choice is MySQL because it is open source.
  
  
• PHP has more functionality than ASP because of the open source developer base!
  
  
• PHP runs on Apache and IIS web servers while ASP runs only on IIS.

Terms:

PHP, ASP, MySql, Databases, Fields