We’ll learn more about how to do exactly that in the interactive exercise in Part 2, below. That’s right - assuming you have an environment setup with the ability to interpret PHP code (and I’ll help you do just that on your own computer at the end of the lesson in the “putting your skills into action” section), you can simply rename a file such as index.html to index.php, and you’re then free to embed PHP code directly within your HTML. One of the huge benefits of PHP code is that it can be embedded directly within HTML code. Ease and streamline the creation of content Let’s take a look at some of its benefits and reasons its use can be so important and beneficial. Benefits of server-side codingĪs mentioned, server-side code is one of the two crucial parts of the great majority of webpages and web applications. It doesn’t require a bunch of complicated prerequisite knowledge it’s easy to use and understand it provides plenty of powerful functionality out of the box and it allows you to quickly create something concrete, demonstrating your progress almost immediately.įor those reasons, it’s a perfect fit for getting started with server-side coding. In our case, we’ll be working with the popular PHP server-side scripting language, which I find to be a great fit as a first language to learn. Scripts are code written to automate the execution of certain tasks, which are interpreted, or understood, by a certain environment, or a system that understands a certain programming language. The code can be written in any number of server-side scripting languages, and those pieces of code are frequently referred to as scripts.
Server-side code, on the other hand, is code that is processed by a web server, and is run before any client-side code. When talking about web development, there are typically two different kinds of code you’ll be dealing with: client-side code and server-side code.Īs we’ve discussed, client-side code is that which deals with rendering the appearance and user interactivity of a webpage within a browser. Part 1: An introduction to PHP and server-side code
This week we’ll take a peak into the world of server-side code. In the first two weeks of the Mini Web App course, we looked at HTML and CSS, and JavaScript and jQuery, all of which are involved with coding of the client-side, or the display of a webpage within a browser.
This is lesson 3 of the Mini Web App course, which walks you through the creation of a simple web application, covering HTML and CSS, PHP, Bootstrap, Local Storage, and more.
By Alex Coleman | Mini Web App, Web App, Web Development
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