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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. Most web hosts offer PHP support but if your host doesn't consider reading the PHP Links section for resources on finding PHP enabled web hosts. Let's say you want to save precious bandwidth and develop locally. In this case, you'll want to install a web server, such as Apache, and of course PHP. You'll most likely want to install a database as well, such as MySQL. You can install these individually or a simpler way is to locate a pre-configured package that automatically installs all of these with just a few mouse clicks. It's easy to setup a web server with PHP support on any operating system, including Linux and Windows. In Linux, you may find rpmfind and PBone helpful for locating RPMs. Room Type: Standard Facilities: What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server. If you were to have a script similar to the above on your server, the client would receive the results of running that script, with no way of determining what the underlying code may be. You Detail... « Booking » Daily Rent: 1000.00 Room Type: Superior  Facilities: When PHP parses a file, it simply passes the text of the file through until it encounters one of the special tags which tell it to start interpreting the text as PHP code. The parser then executes all the code it finds, up until it runs into a PHP closing tag, which tells the parser to just start pa Detail... « Booking »Daily Rent: 1200.00 Room Type: Luxury  Facilities: Notice how this is different from a script written in other languages like Perl or C -- instead of writing a program with lots of commands to output HTML, you write an HTML script with some embedded code to do something (in this case, output some text). The PHP code is enclosed in special start and Detail... « Booking »Daily Rent: 1200.00 Room Type: Deluxe  Facilities: What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript is that the code is executed on the server. If you were to have a script similar to the above on your server, the client would receive the results of running that script, with no way of determining what the underlying code may be. You Detail... « Booking »Daily Rent: 800.00 |
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