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PHP, a web-centric programming language

PHP, a web-centric programming language

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PHP, a web-centric programming language

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- [Instructor] Now that you've seen how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together, we've reached the end of what can be done in the browser. That is, without running a web server. If you haven't already gotten your own web host, now's the time to do so because unlike JavaScript, the programming language PHP runs on the server, not in a visitor's browser. The chapter Get Online with Web Hosting in this course will help you. Or you could run a web server on your home computer following instructions in the later video Develop Locally with an AMP Stack. Although if you do that, you'd still need to get a web host to make your work public. But let's look at an example. This is a simple HTML form. It asks for three things: a name, a start date, and an end date. This is going to be the basis of the hotel reservation system we'll make later. Anyway, as usual, we can see the HTML itself by going up to View, Developer, and View…

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