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Introduction to PHP

Learn PHP from syntax and forms to sessions, MySQL, and building dynamic websites. Free beginner-to-advanced PHP tutorial outline.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain how PHP scripts run on Apache or Nginx
  • Write a first PHP page that prints and reads form data
  • Understand sessions, cookies, and basic MySQL queries
  • Know when to use PHP versus Node.js or Python for backends

Overview

PHP is a server-side language used to build dynamic websites, APIs, and CMS platforms such as WordPress.

This introduction covers how PHP runs on a web server, how requests become HTML, and how you connect forms to a database.

After this page you can move into variables, arrays, functions, OOP, and a small CRUD project when the full lesson set is published.

What this course will cover

  1. 1. Syntax & tags
  2. 2. Forms & validation
  3. 3. Sessions
  4. 4. MySQL CRUD
  5. 5. OOP in PHP
  6. 6. REST basics

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Full 6-level lessons are live for C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. Use them while the remaining PHP lessons are added.

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