PHP Syntax




A PHP scripting block always starts with  
           <?php  and ends with  ?>.

A PHP scripting block can be placed anywhere in the document.

On servers with shorthand support enabled you can start a scripting block with <?  ?>.
For maximum compatibility, we recommend that you use the standard form (<?php) rather than the shorthand form.
Standard tags “<?php  ?>”;
Short tags “<?  ?>”;

A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, just like an HTML file, and some PHP scripting code. 

Below, we have an example of a simple PHP script which sends the text "Hello World" to the browser: 

<html>
   <body>
            <?php  echo "Hello World";    ?>
 </body>
 </html> 


 

Each code line in PHP must end with a semicolon. The semicolon is a separator and is used to distinguish one set of instructions from another. 


There are two basic statements to output text with PHP: 
echo and print. In the example above we have used the echo statement to output the text "Hello World". 


The file must have a .php extension. If the file has a .html extension, the PHP code will not be executed.




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