Learning PHP - Part 5: Your first dynamic web page

After the previous parts of this tutorial, you should be familiar with PHP variables and arrays.

Now we will use these concepts to actually make a working web page. This page will contain a form that you can submit, and we will write PHP code to handle the form contents.

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Learning PHP - Part 4: Controlling flow

So now we’ve looked at variables and arrays, it’s time to make the code a little bit smarter.

We’ve already seen how the foreach() can loop (iterate) over items in an array, but there are other ways to alter the flow of the code as well.

Conditional

One of the most common PHP statements is the “if”. In a nutshell, “if” does the following:

if (some condition is true) { run this code }

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