Read the first part of PHP Intro: Your first PHP-enabled page and PHP Intro: Something Useful. You don’t have to read the comments.
Download hello-world.zip. Open it in TextWrangler (or whatever text editor you prefer) and read through it.
Be ready to answer the following question next class:
- What is the Client?
- What is the Server?
- What is a Server-side Language?
- What is a variable in PHP? What is the syntax for a variable?
- What is a function? How do you define a function?
- What does a PHP tag look like?
- Any other question related to the reading I care to ask…