PHP

PHP (a recursive initialism for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source server-side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML to build web applications and dynamic websites.

Examples

Basic syntax

php
// start of PHP code
<?php
  // PHP code goes here
?>
// end of PHP code

Printing data on screen

php
<?php
  echo "Hello World!";
?>

PHP variables

php
<?php
  // variables
  $name='Danilo';
  $surname='Santos';
  $country='Brasil';
  $email='[email protected]';

  // printing the variables
  echo $name;
  echo $surname;
  echo $country;
  echo $email;
?>

See also