How Do I Use PHP?

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Create a file within your 'htdocs/' directory that ends in .php and the web server will understand it needs to be processed by the PHP interpreter.  

Provide syntactically valid PHP code inside of <?php … ?> blocks and your code will automatically work.  Try it out.  Create a file named 'test.php' and enter the following text:

<?php
          echo "Hello world!";
          ?>
        

Load it in your web browser. You can learn PHP for free at www.w3schools.com/PHP, a great way to immerse yourself in the basics of PHP, a language with many capabilities.