Here we would like to show the very basics of PHP in a short simple
tutorial. This text only deals with dinamic webpage creation with
PHP, though PHP is not only capable of creating webpages. See
the section titled What can PHP
do for more information.
PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and
you can create and edit them the same way you normally create
regular HTML pages.
In this tutorial we assume that your server has support for PHP
activated and that all files ending in .php
are handled by PHP. On most servers this is the default extension
for PHP files, but ask your server administrator to be sure. If
your server supports PHP then you don't need to do anything. Just
create your .php files and put them in your
web directory and the server will magically parse them for you.
There is no need to compile anything nor do you need to install
any extra tools. Think of these PHP-enabled files as simple HTML
files with a whole new family of magical tags that let you do all
sorts of things.
O que o PHP pode fazer?
