PHP for Beginners: Basics, Syntax and Variables

PHP is powerful computer language for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. It is a server-side scripting language. This means that PHP code is executed on web server, and the HTML result is returned to the browser. PHP files should have a file extension of “.php”, “.phpml”, “.php5″, or “.phps” and can contain text, HTML tags and scripts. If the file has a .html extension, the PHP code may not be executed.