Write Your First PHP Program

A “ Hello World” program, as the first program, has become a culture whenever learning a new programming language.

You need a certain environment to write PHP scripts. Since PHP is a server-side language, it requires a web server for the script to run. In this article, you will create a local xampp webserver.

Write and Run a “ Hello World” Program

Now that you have set up the environment for PHP and learned its syntax lets move onto creating the Hello World program.
Follow this step-by-step to create your PHP program:

Open the directory where XAMPP is installed. By default, XAMPP is installed in the C: drive.

Open the XAMPP folder and locate a folder named “htdocs” in it.

Inside htdocs folder, create a folder and name it anything suiting your project. Here, it has been named as demo

Create a file named index.php inside the demo folder. Since PHP is embedded into HTML codes, write the following HTML code along with the PHP script.

below code, echo is used to print the string in front of it.

Save the file and open your web browser and type localhost/ followed by the folder name that you created and hit enter.

Rasika Preethiraj

A technophile at icrony since 2012, In a quest to programmatic automations for scaled organisations through the use of python, php, autoit and machine learning

Write Your First PHP Program

Write and Run a “ Hello World” Program

Rasika Preethiraj

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