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Learning PHP – Part 2: Variable Basics
Posted on October 25th, 2009 1 commentAfter part 1, you should be familiar with the echo statement, which outputs a string to the browser:
echo 'This is a string';
(Note that from now on the opening (<?php) and closing (?>) PHP tags are omitted from examples, but should still be included in any source code you create)
On its own, it does not appear to be useful; after all we could have just written ‘This is a string’ in HTML for the same effect. The real power comes from using PHP variables.
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Dan is a web developer living and working in London, UK. He started this blog when he realised he had technical geekery to share, which wasn't suitable for his Chinese themed site Fozza.com.
Dan's main areas of expertise are PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS. Currently, he works for the BBC, developing new stuff for their website.
