Vietnam and Japan Joint ICT HRD Program
Objectives
To understand what PHP is and how a PHP sc ipt works script o ks with ith a Web Browser B o se and a Web Server To learn what software and components you need to get started with PHP
ICT 5 Web Development
Lesson 11-3. Introduction to PHP
Nguyen Thi Thu Trang
trangntttrangntt -fit@mail.hut.edu.vn
To create and run a simple PHP script
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1. What is PHP? 2. Develop and publish PHP scripts 3. PHP proper syntax 4. PHP comments
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1. What is PHP? 2. Develop and publish PHP scripts 3. PHP proper syntax 4. PHP comments
1. What is PHP?
Advantages
How PHP Pages are Accessed and Interpreted
Your PC
(Internet connected) 1. Web Browser Please Enter A Phone Number Submit Erase
of Using PHP to enhance
WebServer
(Internet connected)
Web pages: pages:
Easy to use Open source Multiple platform
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Web Server Software
3. Receive request, find file and read it. 4. Execute PHP statements
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about JSP & Servlet, ASP.NET?
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1. What is PHP? 2. Develop and publish PHP scripts 3. PHP proper syntax 4. PHP comments
2. Develop and publish PHP script
To develop p and p publish PHP scripts p all y you need is:
A Web server with PHP built into it A client machine with a basic text editor and Internet connection FTP or Telnet software
Exploring the Basic PHP Development Process
The basic steps p y you can use to develop p and publish PHP pages are:
1. Create a PHP script file and save it to a local disk. 2. Use FTP to copy the file to the server. 3. Access your file using a browser.
Creating a PHP Script File and Saving It to a Local Disk
You can use a number of different editors to create your PHP script files.
The PHP script starts with a <?php tag and ends with ?>. Between these tags is a singlePHP print statement.
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Alternative PHP Delimiters
Copying Files To A Web Server with FTP
1. Connect to the Internet and start FTP. 2. 2 Connect C t to t your Web W b server with ith FTP. FTP 3. Copy files to the Web server.
You can alternatively start your PHP scripts with ith th the < <script> i t> t tag as f follows: ll
<script language="PHP"> print ("A simple initial script"); </script>
If have short_open_tag enabled in its configuration fi ti fil file, you can use <? ? and d ?>. ? If asp_tags is enabled in the PHP configuration file, you can use <% and %> as delimiters.
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Accessing Your File Using a Browser
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1. What is PHP? 2. Develop and publish PHP scripts 3. PHP proper syntax 4. PHP comments
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3. Proper Syntax
If you have a syntax error then you have written one or more PHP statements that are grammatically incorrect in the PHP language. The print statement syntax:
Enclose message in quotation marks print ( "Your message to print" ); Message to Output Parenthesis are optional End in a semi-colon
If Use Improper Syntax
Suppose pp
y you use the wrong g syntax: y
1. <?php 2. print ( A simple initial script); 3. ?>
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A Little About PHP's Syntax
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Embedding PHP Statements Within HTML Documents
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PHP Syntax Issues:
Be careful to use quotation marks, parentheses, and brackets in pairs. Most PHP commands end with a semicolon (;). Be careful of case. PHP ignores blank spaces.
way to use PHP is to embed PHP scripts within HTML tags in an HTML document.
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1. <html> 2. <head> 3. <title>HTML With PHP Embedded</title> </head> 4. <body> y 5. <font size=5 color=blue>Welcome To My Page</font> 6. <?php 7. print ("<br> Using PHP is not hard<br>"); 8. ?> 9. and you can learn to use it quickly! 10. </body></html>
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Would Output The Following ...
Using Backslash ( (\ \) to Generate HTML Tags with print()
Sometimes you want to output an HTML tag th t also that l requires i double d bl quotation t ti marks. k
Use the backslash ( (\ \) character to signal that the double quotation marks themselves should be output: output:
print ("<font color=\ color=\"blue "blue\ \">"); The Th above b statement t t t would ld output: t t <font color="blue">
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1. What is PHP? 2. Develop and publish PHP scripts 3. PHP proper syntax 4. PHP comments
4. PHP Comments
Comments
enable you to include descriptive text along with the PHP script
Comment lines are ignored when the script runs; they do not slow down the runrun-time. Comments have two common uses.
Describe Describe
the overall script purpose. particularly tricky script lines.
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Using Comments with PHP Scripts
Comment
Example Script with Comments
1. <html> <head> 2. 2 <title> Generating HTML From PHP</title> </head> 3. <body> <h1> Generating HTML From PHP</h1> 4. <?php 5. // 6. // Example script to output HTML tags 7. // 8. print ("Using ( Using PHP has <i>some advantages:</i>"); advantages:</i> ); 9. print ("<ul><li>Speed</li><li>Ease of use</li> <li>Functionality</li></ul>"); //Output bullet list 10. print ("</body></html>"); 11. ?>
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Syntax - Use //
<?php // This is a comment ?>
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place on Same line as a statement:
<?php //Output a line print ("A simple initial script"); ?>
Alternative Comment Syntax
Question?
PHP allows a couple of additional ways to create comments. comments
<?php phpinfo(); # This is a builtbuilt-in function ?>
Multiple line comments.
<?php /* A script that gets information about the PHP version being used. */ phpinfo(); ?>
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