RE: [PHP] php question
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:24:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] php question | ||
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> I am trying to understand in deatil exactly what PHP is, I know that
it is
> a
> scripting markup type language, but.....
>
> Is it correct to say that PHP is essentially just C++ code wrapped in
PHP
> blocks which are embedded in HTML?
Well, more of a C/C++ syntax, actually. PHP has a lot of built in
functions that make it different from C/C++. But, yeah, in an extremely
broad manner, you could say that's what it is. The PHP code is evaluated
and ran on the server and the resulting HTML is sent to the client. Note
that you can't compile PHP, like C/C++.
---John Holmes...