Coding College

In this tutorial I will explain:
•Opening and closing tags of PHP…
•Other basic tags…
•And an example of a PHP page.

The only way of starting a PHP script is to first type <?php. The content goes in between that tag and the ending tag which is, ?>.

Example:

A comment block is any text that you would like to include in a PHP page without it having an affect on the page itself. You can use comment blocks to help you locate information in a certain page so that your not scrolling for such a long time looking for a certain part of the page.

The text ; is used to end a string or anything and everything in a PHP script. You must use this to declare the end of every statement (Declaring variables, Echoing, etc..).

Echo is a function used to output text and data. You use it to display variables, strings, and even HTML code. When you start to echo something you do it as follows: echo ‘ content to be displayed goes here’;. Don’t forget to end the statement with a semi-colon.