PHP Syntax

A PHP Syntax script is executed on the server, and the plain HTML result is sent back to the browser. It can be placed anywhere in the document. It starts with <?php and ends with ?>:

<?php
// PHP code goes here
?>

The default file extension for PHP files is “.php“.

A PHP file normally contains HTML tags, and some PHP scripting code. Below, we have an example of a simple PHP file, with a PHP script that uses a built-in PHP function “echo” to output the text “Hello World!” on a web page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My first PHP page</h1>

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

</body>
</html>

PHP Case Sensitivity

In PHP, keywords (e.g. ifelsewhileecho, etc.), classes, functions, and user-defined functions are not case-sensitive. In the example below, all three echo statements below are equal and legal:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<?php
ECHO "Hello World!<br>";
echo "Hello World!<br>";
EcHo "Hello World!<br>";
?>

</body>
</html>

In this example only the first statement will display the value of the $color variable! This is because $color$COLOR, and $coLOR are treated as three different variables:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<?php
$color = "red";
echo "My car is " . $color . "<br>";
echo "My house is " . $COLOR . "<br>";
echo "My boat is " . $coLOR . "<br>";
?>

</body>
</html>

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