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PHP Quick Intro, Review and Start for beginners or as a refresher on some of the PHP basics. This tutorial will guide you through most of the essentials you need to start programming with PHP fast! PHP is part of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack that has powered the majority of the web for over two decades.

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PHP is a backend development language that runs on a server. I suggest installing the XAMPP development server. Here is my guide to getting XAMPP set up: https://youtu.be/btauAEqaifw

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This tutorial is part of my PHP and MySQL for Beginners Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Zuz27SZ-6MeRUt-z60DRxNqcrFAUYIb

(0:00) Intro
(0:26) Start Apache in the XAMPP control panel
(1:18) Open XAMPP htdocs your_folder in Visual Studio Code
(1:30) Create an index.php file
(2:10) PHP files are often mixed with HTML code
(2:44) How to add php code to your file
(3:08) Defining variables in PHP
(3:57) Output to the HTML page with PHP echo
(4:35) Inserting a PHP variable into a string
(6:05) PHP comments
(6:40) PHP data types
(8:15) Retrieve data from a PHP array
(9:15) PHP variable name restrictions
(9:40) Defining PHP constants
(10:30) PHP string concatenation
(13:10) Adding line breaks / new line returns to PHP output
(14:12) PHP Math Operators
(15:20) PHP Compound Assignment Operators
(16:20) Increment and Decrement in PHP
(16:53) Embedding PHP in an HTML tag: Create Dark Mode

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