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The document summarizes key points about server-side scripting using PHP: 1) PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language that is used to create dynamic web pages and interface with databases. PHP code is embedded within HTML and executed on the server-side. 2) The lecture covers PHP syntax including variables, constants, data types, operators, and conditionals. It also discusses using PHP with HTML, development tools, and compatible databases. 3) Server-side scripting allows scripts to execute on the server, for example to retrieve data from a database or calculate values, with the results then returned to the client. This provides interactive and dynamic web functionality.

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PHP Server-Side Scripting Basics

The document summarizes key points about server-side scripting using PHP: 1) PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language that is used to create dynamic web pages and interface with databases. PHP code is embedded within HTML and executed on the server-side. 2) The lecture covers PHP syntax including variables, constants, data types, operators, and conditionals. It also discusses using PHP with HTML, development tools, and compatible databases. 3) Server-side scripting allows scripts to execute on the server, for example to retrieve data from a database or calculate values, with the results then returned to the client. This provides interactive and dynamic web functionality.

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MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING


Server-side Scripting – PHP
(lecture # 13)

Engr. Muhammad Raees


(Lecturer)

Date: November 13, 2020


LECTURE CONTENTS

• Server side Scripting


• PHP Language
• Syntax
• Variables
• Conditions

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Website Structure

1. Request Content
2. Get response back
• Additionally,
• Execute a script in the client
side
• Execute a script in the server
side
• Calculate something
• Retrieve data from a
database
• Execute script in the client side

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Server-side Script

• Computer programs on the web that are executed server-side


• Usually used to provide interactive web sites that interface to databases or other
data stores
• PHP
• ASP
• Perl
• Ruby
• JSP

• For this course, PHP along with Laravel platform is used

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PHP
• PHP: Pre-processor Hypertext
• Originally called “Personal Home Page Tools”
• Used to create dynamic web pages
• Popular server-side scripting technology
• Open-source
• Anyone may view, modify and redistribute source code
• Platform independent
• Interpreted language, scripts are parsed at run-time rather than compiled
beforehand
• Compatible with many popular databases
• Structurally similar to C/C++
• Supports procedural and object-oriented paradigm

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PHP – HTML Amalgam

• PHP code can be embedded with HTML code


• HTML can also be written inside the PHP code
• PHP can also be written as a standalone program with no HTML at all
• PHP code is denoted in the page with opening and closing tags, as follows:
• <?php and ?>
• <? or ?>
• PHP statements end with a semicolon
• Comments can be added as
• // for one line comment
• /* and */ for multiple lines comment

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Development Tools

• PHP requires set of tools to run


• A web server (WAMPP, XAMPP, etc)
• PHP
• MySQL
• Additionally Laravel and others for standardized development
• Editor
• Any text editor or a specialized IDE can be used
• File have the .php extension
• The usual director for the project
• C:\wamp\htdocs\

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Language – Constants

• A constant is a placeholder for a value that you reference within your code that is
formally defined before using it
• Must begin with a letter or an underscore
• Case sensitive
• Named using all capital letters
• PHP function define() is used to assign a value to a constant

• define(“name”, “value”);

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Language – Variables

• Begin with $ sign


• First character must be a letter or underscore
• Remaining characters may be letters, numbers or underscores
• Don’t need to declare or initialize
• Case sensitive
• Data types does not require to be declare explicitly
• Supports
• Float, integer, boolean, string, array, object

• $name= “ali”; $age=20;

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Language – Type

• The gettype() function returns the type of the provided variable


• The settype() function converts a variable to the type specified by type
• A number of functions are available for determining a variable’s type
• is_array()
• is_bool()
• is_float()
• is_integer()
• is_null()
• is_numeric()
• is_string()

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Language – Operators
• Arithmetic Operators: • Logical Operators:
• +, - ,*, /, % • AND, OR, NOT
• Assignment Operators: • &&, ||, !
• = • Equality Operators:
• += ($a +=$b ), *= , /= • ==, !=, ===
• .= ($a .= $b) • Comparison Operators:
• String Operators: • >, <, <=, >=
• . , .=
• $a=“abcd”.”efgh”; $a=abcdefgh
• $a.=“ijk”; $a=abcdefghijk
• Increment/decrement Operators:
• ++,--
• $b=$a++
• $b=++$a

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Language – Conditionals

• if statement:
• if(condition) • switch statement:
• switch(variable)
•{
• {
•}
• case option:
• if-else statement: • action
• if(condition) • break;
• { } • .
• else • .
• { } • }

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References

• Chapter 5, “Beginning PHP and MySQL” by W. Jason Gilmore, Apress publisher,


4th edition; 2010, ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-3115-8

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THANKS

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