Understanding PHP basics

Get PHP info

<?php
 phpinfo();
?>

Let's write our first PHP code.

<?php
 echo "Hello from PHP";
?>

Storing values in a variable

<?php
$myName = "Kooka";
$friendsName = "Loopa";
echo "<p>I am $myName and I have a friend called $friendsName.</p>";
?>

Display errors

Insert the following two lines at the top of your scripts to display errors.

error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set( "display_errors", 1);