Introduction to PHP Programming

By PHP Catalyst
2007-11-19


What can I do with PHP?

PHP, as we told earlier, is a server-side scripting language. The client will always see and interact with HTML in his browser. PHP is capable of generating dynamic HTML pages and hence it can output HTML which servers as a presentation layer and in the backend, on the server it can continue to process all requests made by the client. These requests could be processing of form, handling cookies, uploading files, generating dynamic HTML by querying a database etc.

PHP can also be used from command line to execute php scripts. This is similar to running a UNIX shell or a perl script from command to accomplish tasks like taking backup of files, analyzing log files, generating a list of files and folders etc.

PHP is capable of doing much more than what read above. You can use it on command line interface to do most of the tasks stated above, without a browser, of course. PHP can also be used to create rich GUI applications using PHP-GTK kit. This requires knowledge of advanced PHP features.

Let's look at some of the popular features of PHP.

Tutorial Pages:
» What can I do with PHP?
» Popoular Features of PHP
» Basics of PHP
» Variables in PHP
» Data Types in PHP
» Expressions and Operators
» Control Structures in PHP
» Functions in PHP
» Declaring Functions in PHP
» Scope of a Variable
» Built-in Functions in PHP
» Handling Strings in PHP
» Printing Strings in PHP
» String Comparisons in PHP
» Manipulating Strings in PHP
» Arrays in PHP
» Types of Arrays in PHP
» Creating Arrays in PHP
» Array Operations in PHP

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