Xah's PHP Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2007

This is a tutorial on PHP. Code examples given here are tested with PHP version 4.4.7 (built on 2007-07).

PHP is primarily used together with HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript. If you are not familiar with those, see: Xah's DHTML Tutorial.

This tutorial is work in progress. When it reaches some quality and completeness, this paragraph will be removed. Treat it currently as a “blog”.

Language Basics

Language in a glance.

• PHP Basics

Spend 15 minutes on each item in this basics section, and you will acquire familiarity to program in PHP on your own. This coverage is concrete. It explains things as they function.

Basic Syntax

• quoting strings
• string: join, length, parts
• if statement
• “while” and “for” loops

• References

Lists

• list basics
• keyed list
• looping thru a list

Functions, Objects, Modules

• defining a function
• writing a package

Misc

• How To Send HTML Mail
• How To Send Mail with Attachment
• mysql databas query
• misc