PHP codes must be enclosed by PHP tags. When PHP parser pareses a file , it looks for opening and closing PHP tags. It tells the parser when to start interpreting and when to stop. Reason for parsing in this manner is allowing to embed in different types of documents like HTML.
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to run PHP program on local pc. For this purpose, You must have PHP environment installed on your pc.
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL . It is actually a set of open source software packages which allows us to run dynamic web pages using PHP. In this post , we’ll learn how to set up LAMP on local ubuntu machine.
To run PHP code from our computer we need to get a PHP server. There are several ways to do this. Installing different packages are really painful. There is an all in one installer called XAMPP which allows you to run Apache, PHP, MySQL together.
Emmet is very popular tool for writing HTML, CSS code rapidly. This can greatly improve your workflow. Emmet can be used in all popular text editors like Visual Studio Code, Brackets, Notepad++ , Sublime Text , Atom etc. Visual Studio Code comes with built in Emmet support. I recommend using Visual Studio Code to follow this post. Any code editor with Emmet installed is also good to go. In this post I’ll discuss about using Emmet efficiently.