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66FMC

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Can someone tell me what PHP is, and where I can learn it online?

I want to create a personal webpage, is PHP something I want to learn? I want to do something nice, like this. I like the layout very much, and this guy is using PHP. I found a cool site, planet-source-code, with lots of cool codes in PHP like counters and so on. I want to learn how to insert these.

Do PHP users use Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or the likes? Or something else?

Can someone help me get started learning PHP?
 
PHP is a server side scripting language. Basically you can "program" a webpage to display different things. When a visitor loads your page, the server runs your PHP code and generates HTML for the user to see. For example, you can have your website load up different colors at different times of day. I have a section my webpage load up a random design each time the visitor reloads. The information and links are all the same, but the layout is different.

Dreamweaver works well with PHP although it won't help you much in coding. If you want to learn to code PHP, try PHP.net. They have a huge online help page that includes sample code and comments from other PHP users.

If you want to make a site using PHP, you have to make sure that your web host supports it. There are a few free webhosts that support PHP, but I'd suggest looking into buying some webspace. Once you get proficient in basic PHP, you'll probably want to explore the more powerful functions of it like forms and interaction with MySQL databases.
 
Basically php is for dynamic content, not for design. It won't really affect the way the page looks (except for example what igowerf mentioned, changing the look based on different things like time of day - either way, the look part is all in html/css.)

Look for a tutorial on google and then just dive in! It's really pretty easy to get into and you can start small. My first php was include("somefile.html") 🙂
 
phpfreaks has a TON of information on php. I am redoing my site purely in PHP, and have used their tutorials to help me write mine. Lots and lots of good examples.
 
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