Issue #1-an introduction to PHP
Posted 09-06-2009 at 03:34 AM by kikuta akio
Hey everyone, I will be running a series of articles based on educating all of you in the wanders of PHP, feel free to follow along it is very easy to learn. If you happen to miss an issue then please go and view my blog on the forums where I will have a whole backlog of article.
This first article will be mainly talking about how PHP works, the next exciting issue will be covering how to set up your very own server to start programming.
What is PHP? (a small history about PHP)
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, the first P stems from PHP’s early origins at the hands of Rasmus Lerdorf, a polish man who originally used PHP in 1994 to keep track of the number of visitors to his CV, and at that stage was called Personal home page. In 1995 the basic PHP language was released, and at this stage Rasmus decided to make the project open source in the hopes that others would patch any bugs in the code.
from there PHP continued to evolve, for a more in-depth description go to:
http://gtk.php.net/manual1/en/html/i...p.history.html
Why use PHP?
This is a question that many of you may be asking yourself because there is many other exciting programming languages ranging from ASP, to ColdFusion, and JavaScript(this will be used with PHP but let’s leave that for now).
PHP is used for 3 key reasons
It’s FREE (Aside from the costs of your computer and power)
It’s simple and easy for non-Programmers to use
It’s Lightweight (Would you believe that the base code for this game is under a megabyte!!)
Who can use PHP?
PHP can be used by anyone from about a 12year old to a 70year old. Once you have the basics down-pat programming becomes extremely easy, although a Basic understanding of HTML will help anyone hoping to learn this language.
What will you need to run PHP?
For most of you, you will require an APACHE ready server, as well as MySQL databases
Other stuff
PHP is very versatile and can be embedded into any HTML documents and become invisible to the end user.
In the next issue I will take you through step by step in Setting up your own Local PHP server.
This first article will be mainly talking about how PHP works, the next exciting issue will be covering how to set up your very own server to start programming.
What is PHP? (a small history about PHP)
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, the first P stems from PHP’s early origins at the hands of Rasmus Lerdorf, a polish man who originally used PHP in 1994 to keep track of the number of visitors to his CV, and at that stage was called Personal home page. In 1995 the basic PHP language was released, and at this stage Rasmus decided to make the project open source in the hopes that others would patch any bugs in the code.
from there PHP continued to evolve, for a more in-depth description go to:
http://gtk.php.net/manual1/en/html/i...p.history.html
Why use PHP?
This is a question that many of you may be asking yourself because there is many other exciting programming languages ranging from ASP, to ColdFusion, and JavaScript(this will be used with PHP but let’s leave that for now).
PHP is used for 3 key reasons
It’s FREE (Aside from the costs of your computer and power)
It’s simple and easy for non-Programmers to use
It’s Lightweight (Would you believe that the base code for this game is under a megabyte!!)
Who can use PHP?
PHP can be used by anyone from about a 12year old to a 70year old. Once you have the basics down-pat programming becomes extremely easy, although a Basic understanding of HTML will help anyone hoping to learn this language.
What will you need to run PHP?
For most of you, you will require an APACHE ready server, as well as MySQL databases
Other stuff
PHP is very versatile and can be embedded into any HTML documents and become invisible to the end user.
In the next issue I will take you through step by step in Setting up your own Local PHP server.
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*sits paitiently and waits for the next issue
Very informative btw...good blog
Posted 25-06-2009 at 11:44 AM by Kung Fu Grip
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lol next issue comes out with the newspaper... when diss gets around to publishing it.. then it gets posted herePosted 27-06-2009 at 07:15 AM by kikuta akio
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