![]() It can be used to assemble an HTML document on the fly from a number of different pieces, write it all into cohesive HTML or CSS and send it to your web browser for display. Sounds like that is all we need to make a nice website, so what is PHP for? I am glad you asked! PHP, as you recall, stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor and it does what its name implies: it preprocesses hypertext.īut what does it mean to preprocess hypertext? Basically, PHP scripts run on the web server before the webpage is sent to your browser. So, HTML formats a webpage and CSS defines how that formatting should be displayed. Tags let the web browser know what the text between the tags is for and, originally, how the browser should display the text. This lets your browser know that the text is a heading, and the number indicates the prominence/importance of the heading (with 1 being the most important). A simple text document is marked up with tags that define the role of the text between the tags.įor example: heading text (like the title of this blog) is often surrounded by and H1 tags. The ML part of HTML, or Markup Language, refers to how the language is structured: with mark up. Linking is what makes the web so interconnected. HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language, but what does that mean? Let’s break it down: Text that is hyper? This is the ability of the text document to have links, either to various sections of the same document (or webpage) or to other text documents entirely (other webpages and websites). It was a miserable hardship web designers these days have it so easy what with their fancy styles and dynamically produced pages. ![]() Back in the day, us old web designers had only boring old HTML with which to make webpages. We will start with HTML, since that is how the web started. ![]()
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