PHP/Basic Code

Basics

.php

all PHP pages end with the .php extension, this tells the browser there is php code in the file.

//

comments in PHP are defined with a double-forward slash "//"

delimiters - start & stop

<?php

all php code begins with this.

?>

all php code ends with this

output text

echo

just like with scripting, echo can be used to output text

ie.
<p>
 <?php
   echo "My first line of PHP!"; 
 ?>
</p>

Arithmetic

php is capable of doing basic arithmetic, take the following for example using "echo"

<?php
 echo 17 * 123;  
?>
Outputs: 2091

Operators

concatenation

joins strings together

<?php
 echo "Hello," . " " . "world" . "!";
?>
----
Outputs: Hello, world!

Each string above is defined between double quotes. The "dots" are between them and combine them together to form 1 long string.

Variables

Variables in php are stored the same way as bash scripting, the variable name being defined by starting with a "$"

ie.
<?php
 $myName = "r00tedvw";
 echo $myName;
?>