What Will I Learn?
- You will learn how to use numerical operators including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, modulus.
- You will learn to create and assign values for string variables.
- You will learn to use the concatenation operator with string variables to join strings together.
- You will learn to print HTML tags such as br with PHP.
- You will learn to use combined operators to change the contents of a string or numerical variable.
Requirements
- Notepad2 (download from http://notepad2.com/) or another text editor that has syntax highlighting for HTML & PHP.
- XAMPP (download from https://www.apachefriends.org/) to run a PHP enabled web server locally.
- Microsoft Windows.
Difficulty
Basic
No programming knowledge required to do these tutorials. You will learn everything required in these tutorials.
Description
In this series of lessons you will learn the basics of the PHP language, such as the syntax, variables, string methods, if statements, loops, functions arrays and so on. You will also learn how to process data obtained from HTML forms and connect to a MySQL database to either insert or extract data.
Video Tutorial
Curriculum
- PHP Lesson 1 - Starting an stopping an Apache Server using XAMPP
- PHP lesson 2 - Creating your first PHP file
- PHP lesson 3 - Variables, Comments, Echo statement
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