Quick and Dirty Intro to PHP Northwestern University快速和肮脏的PHP 西北大学介绍.pptVIP

Quick and Dirty Intro to PHP By David Choffnes (content shamelessly ripped from the manual) What is PHP? PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Write an HTML script with some embedded code to do something Code is executed on the server. What is PHP? An example: Example 1-1. An introductory example html head titleExample/title /head body ?php echo Hi, I’m a PHP script!; ? /body /html Ridiculous DB support (and more) Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple. The following databases are currentlysupported: Adabas D, Ingres, Oracle (OCI7 and OCI8), dBase, InterBase, Ovrimos, Empress, FrontBase, PostgreSQL, FilePro (read-only), mSQL, Solid Hyperwave, Direct MS-SQL, Sybase, IBM DB2, MySQL, Velocis, Informix, ODBC, Unix dbm DBX database abstraction extension allows you to transparently use any database Supports ODBC, the Open Database Connection standard, Support for talking to other services using protocols such as LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and countless others. Basic syntax Escaping from HTML Example 5-1. Ways of escaping from HTML 1. ? echo (this is the simplest, an SGML processing instruction\n); ? ?= expression ? This is a shortcut for ? echo expression ? 2. ?php echo(if you want to serve XHTML or XML documents, do like this\n); ? 3. script language=php echo (some editors (like FrontPage) don’t like processing instructions); /script 4. % echo (You may optionally use ASP-style tags); % %= $variable; # This is a shortcut for % echo . . . % Basic Syntax Example 5-2. Advanced escaping ?php if ($expression) { ? strongThis is true./strong ?php } else { ? strongThis is false./strong ?php } ? Instruction Separation Instructions are separated the same as in C or Perl - terminate each statement with a semicolon. The closing tag (