How to Beginning with your First PHP Program?

Welcome to PHPBash | Helping You to Become an Expert in PHP Programming. In this PHP Tutorial for beginners and professionals, I will Cover, How to Write First PHP Program or Script?, How to Execute PHP Program in XAMPP?,What PHP File contains? etc. To Run Your PHP Script, You must be ready with PHP Environment like XAMPP.

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How to Beginning with your First PHP Program?

This PHP tutorial covers all the topics of PHP Introduction such as

1. What is PHP Script/ PHP Program?

2. What PHP file Contains?

3. Editors for Writing PHP Program

4. Creating First PHP Program

5. Executing PHP Program in XAMPP

Lets start this PHP tutorial with question What is PHP Script/ PHP Program?

What is PHP Script/ PHP Program?

PHP Stands for PHP: hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is Open source general-purpose High Level object-oriented Scripting Language. It is used for web application development and can also be embedded into hypertext markup language (HTML). PHP scripts can only be interpreted on a server that has PHP installed and PHP Scripts/ PHP Program having file Extension ".php". PHP Script Statements are Written in

<?php

//PHP Statements goes Here

The Statements between <?php and ?> are Interpreted by PHP Parser on Web Server. The <?php and ?> is called PHP Block. It Starts with <?php Ends with ?>. While Embedding In HTML, you may have any number of PHP blocks as per your requirements.

IMPORTANT: PHP files must be Saved to Root Directory of Web Server.

Following script displays the sentence “Hello, Welcome to PHPBash!!” in the browser. It is a simple and straight forward code. You can print it using either echo() or print(). The difference between using echo() and print() is that, the echo statement does not return any value whereas, print() prints the argument as well as returns a value of 1.

Writing First PHP Program in Sublime Text Editor- hello.php file

After writing above PHP script, save it with name hello.php in Root Directory of XAMPP. For Example, As in this Example I used windows, and my XAMPP server is installed in C drive. So, the path for the Root Directory i.e. htdocs directory will be "C:\xampp\htdocs". Now your first PHP Script is Ready. You are ready to Execute it. Lets see it now.

What PHP file Contains?

PHP files may contain plain text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP code itself. PHP files can be saved with extension ".php" in the root directory of Web Server. If you want more details, check our tutorial Introduction to PHP.

PHP FIle Screenshot: Showing HTML,CSS,JavaScript, PHP

Editors for Writing PHP Program

There are different IDE's and Editors are available for writing PHP Script. Basically, an Integrated Development Environment or IDE is a full package with which you are able to write php script, Interpret PHP Script, execute and debug PHP Script code at the same place. On the other hand, in contrast, Code Editor is a text editor with limited features that allows writing code, either through native capabilities or through optional plugins.

They are as follows:

Popular IDE's for PHP Project Development

Popular Code Editors for PHP Project Development

Executing PHP Program in XAMPP

As PHP is used to Develop Web Applications, so PHP program runs on a web browser such as - Chrome, Firefox,Opera, Internet Explorer etc. The Following Steps can be followed to run the your first PHP program hello.php.

Step 1: Create a simple PHP program as created above hello.php file

Step 2: Save the file with hello.php name in the Web Servers Root Directory htdocs folder only, which resides inside the xampp folder. For Example,"C:\xampp\htdocs" as described earlier.

Step 3: Start the XAMPP server and followed by starting the Apache and MySQL.

Step 4: Now, open your web browser and type localhost http://localhost/hello.php on your browser window's address bar.

Step 5: The output for the above hello.php program will be shown as the screenshot below:

First PHP Program Output- hello.php

This are steps for Executing PHP Program in XAMPP.

The following program is written in PHP code embedded in an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Welcome to PHPBash!!!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <?php echo '<p>Welcome to PHPBash!!!</p>'; ?>
  </body>
</html>

As steps followed to execute hello.php,same steps will be followed to execute above file. After Execution, In case of above code, It will produce following result −

Welcome to PHPBash!!!

If you observe HTML code of the above output, you will find that, there is no PHP code, because all PHP code written in page is parsed by PHP parser at web server and it returns results in normal HTML language which can be interpreted by browser.

I hope this PHP tutorial might have given clear idea about writing your First PHP Program or PHP Script. If you have any doubt, Please let me know in Comment Section. Please share it with your friends.

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