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PHP Tutorial

PHP Syntax

PHP is a scripting language, and the script can be used anywhere in the document. The PHP script is executed on the server as it is a server scripting language and the HTML result is then sent back to the browser. 

>Script Syntax

The php script starts with and anything inside is considered as the php script. The php statements end with a semicolon. The php file includes HTML tags and some code for Php scripting. 

The PHP script uses a built-in function "echo" to print the results or any text on the web page. So, for echo, the php script will be as below.

Echo “Learning PHP!”;

?>

It can be combined with an HTML title or body to make the text more presentable. 

>Case Sensitivity

PHP is not a case sensitive language. So, the keywords, classes, functions in PHP are not case sensitive. But the variable names in php are case sensitive.

For example, the three echo statements will give the same output as the keywords and statements are not case sensitive.

 ECHO "I want to learn PHP!
";

 echo "I want to learn PHP!
";

 EcHo "I want to learn PHP!
";

 ?> 

But if we have variables in a similar way, the statement with the same case value will only display results.

For example, from the below statements, only the first statement will give the output as variables are case sensitive.

 $day = "Monday";

 echo “Today is”. $day. "
";

 echo “Tomorrow is”. $DAY . "
";

 echo “Yesterday was”. $DaY . "
";

 ?>