How to Merge PHP with HTML

PHP is a handy web programming language that you can use with HTML. You either can add a section of PHP code to an existing HTML document, or you can add HTML code to a PHP document. Just follow these steps.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Add PHP to an HTML Document

1. Begin your document as usual with the standard HTML tags.

2. Open a new tag by typing a left alligator bracket followed by a question mark and the letters "php:" don't close the tag yet.

3. Add your PHP code in the following lines. Don't forget to document what you're doing by adding comments after two slashes.

4. Close your PHP tag by typing a question mark followed by a right alligator bracket.

5. Finish your document by adding the rest of the HTML tags and content.

Include HTML in a PHP Document

6. Create a PHP document as usual.

7. Use a print statement such as "echo" to tell the server to display the upcoming content as text when it processes the code for the browser.

8. Let the server know you'll be using HTML next by typing a left alligator bracket and the characters "html info" then a closing (right) alligator bracket.

9. Close out the PHP by typing a question mark and right alligator bracket if you want, or leave it open. This usually won't make a difference.

10. Open the HTML portion of your code in the usual way by typing "html" inside right and left alligator brackets.

11. Add the rest of your HTML code.

12. Finish up by typing a closing HTML tag (left alligator, forward slash, "html," right alligator). Close your PHP if you haven't already.

Tips & Warnings

• When using "echo" to signify the proper processing of HTML, remember to surround the HTML section of the code (including the "html info" tag) with double quotes.
• Don't forget to end every PHP statement with a semicolon.

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