INST 377 Lecture 3: INST377 Lecture 3: PHP
9 Feb 2019
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With php, it"s a simple matter to embed dynamic activity in web pages. When you give pages the . php extension, they have instant access to the scripting language. From a developer"s point of view, all you have to do is write code such as the following: Outside of this construct, everything is sent to the client as direct html. So the text here"s the latest news. is simply output to the browser; within the php tags, the built-in date function displays the current day of the week according to the server"s system time. The final output of the two parts looks like this: today is wednesday. Php is a flexible language, and some people prefer to place the php construct directly next to php code, like this: There are also other ways of formatting and outputting information, which i"ll explain in the chapters on php.
