Ultrakd Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hey Im new here and kinda new to web designing too. I was wondering what the main difference between PHP and HTML is. Is there an advantage to using PHP for designing you sites instead of PHP? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Html is the Language used to write Web Pages. PHP is a scripting language that allows you to write dynamic web pages. PHP will interact with files and databases based on the User's input, ie: form interactions, links with query strings. Essentially, the php script is used to write the Html code for your page (sort of). Html does not interaxct with files or Databases. A scritping language is needed for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrakd Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 alright thanks this really helps. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeDev Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 HTML is what your Browser reads. It's a mainstream language that all browsers and websites use. When a person requests a website page, the server send a HTML page to the user's browser. This HTML page will be same to all users who request it. Therefore HTML is a STATIC language. You cannot perform Calculations, Functions or complex decisions within HTML. PHP is a server-side code. Server-Side means that this code is processed on the server, and only the Server can understand and process this code. After the server finishes processing the PHP code the file is then sent to the user's browser. So for example if some page served the Server's time: Each time the request is made to that page, the server processes the PHP code to display time, and sends it to the requester's browser. So every page sent will be different from the previous, because the time changes on each request. I hope that's helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zamshed Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 HTML is mark language that means it is used to shape your form, on the other hand PHP is used for functioning behind the form, so one is not another's reliever. regards Zamshed Farhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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