Im a biginner of PHP..

**jpui** · 02-24-2006, 07:14 PM

Hello,

Im a beginner of PHP.. I would like to know how to simply make thigns bold, underline.. or make a link or images.. and is it similar to HTML coding??

-jpui-

**PureEvil** · 02-24-2006, 08:32 PM

HTML can be used in a php file.

if displaying some text in the middle of a script, for example displaying that text only if $string is equal to 123:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

if ($string == 123){

echo "<b>the variable string is set to 123</b>";

}

?>

or, you can do this to display the text regardless of what a variable is:

PHP Code:


			
<html><body>

<b>here's some text that always displays.</b>

<?php

//put your php code here

?>

</body></html>

**RedMatrix** · 02-25-2006, 03:04 AM

That's very interesting.

so a .PHP file can have HTML? and the php can 'write' out html code on the fly!

**Tim356** · 02-28-2006, 10:22 PM

Basically yes, the server parses php to html when it processes it. So you can imbed html within php pages - so all your formatting should be done with html.