I'm learning PHP and little bit confused. Please help me?

Question

Sir, I'm learning PHP from W3schools.com. I understand it. there's no problem but my confusion is what's the professional use of PHP or what's the way of using PHP?
Eg. I've learnt Arrays today but how to use it in webpage?
Kindly help me or suggest me a site that can help me. sorry if my question seems typical.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You do not have to use everything that you learn in PHP on a website, only use what you need.



I use PHP quite a bit in designing my sites... During the layout process I divide the site in to different sections to do a basic layout/template consisting of one or more of the following: a header, a top menu, a left menu, the main body area, and a footer. Then when I have each section done, I create my template something like this:










require_once('dbconnect.php'); // database connection

require_once('header.php');

require_once('topmenu.php');

require_once('leftmenu.php');

?>

require_once('footer.php');

?>







Now that is a very simplified template example. So if I want to make changes to any part of the site, and keep from editing many pages, I just change the appropriate section. Now I do use PHP for many other things like e-mail forms and using database info, but the above example showing one way for using PHP. On some of my e-commerce sites I use one form to display individual product with it info by passing/requesting the information, saving me literally thousand of individual pages to display each listing.



If you do not have a use for arrays at this point in time, do not worry about it, if and when the time comes that you need to use one, you will be ready. I have used arrays before, but no good example comes to mind at this time.



Best wishes

Answer 2

The use of PHP is mainly for accounts/getting information from databases. You can query databases using PHP and SQL and it returns an array of values. You can also send email and use cookies from PHP.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

PHP can be useful when creating sites