Day 11. Using PHP
Today's lesson introduces you to PHP, a server-side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML pages to create dynamic Web sites.
PHP is a powerful language: You can use it together with MySQL as the foundation for a sophisticated database-driven Web site. Today's lesson introduces you to the language and shows you how to use it with MySQL.
Today, you will learn the following:
PHP's principles of operation
How to embed PHP within HTML files on a Web server
An overview of the PHP language
How to use PHP to interact with a MySQL database, including making a database connection, running queries, processing the results of queries, and handling errors
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