PHP Tutorial Library

This Introductory chapter helps beginner programmer to get started in PHP.

The main focus of this lesson is to describe the introduction of programming with PHP.

• Some Facts About PHP
  
• What You Can Do with PHP
  
• PHP Why? Popular Features of PHP
  
• PHP vs. Other Technologies

PHP installation phase has been explained with proper instructions.

• About PHP Interpreter.
  
• Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

PHP Startup Introduction.
This lesson describes how PHP works and how to use a php.ini file.

This lesson has a detailed description of PHP Syntax. It's essential for you to before proceeding to learn more advanced lessons in PHP.

• PHP Tags.
• Comments in PHP.
• How to write PHP with HTML.

This lesson describes PHP Data Types and converting between Data Types.

This lesson describes rules for naming variables and Variable Variables.

This lesson describes how to create and use PHP constants.

This lesson describes about PHP Arithmetic Operators, Assignment Operators, Comparison Operators, Logical Operators and Concatenation Operators.

This lesson describes about PHP if else statement, elseif statement and switch statement.

This lesson describes about PHP while loop, do while loop, for loop and foreach loop.

This lesson shows how to collect submitted form-data from users using POST and GET method.

This lesson describes how to validate HTML form inputs by using PHP server side validation technique.

This lesson describes how to upload the file into the server by using PHP.

This lesson describes about PHP Numeric array (Indexed array), Associative array and Multidimensional array.

This lesson describes PHP Date and Time functionality, Timestamp and PHP date_default_timezone_set function.

This lesson describes PHP Built-in Functions, User Defined Functions, Function Arguments and Returning Values.