Of course, at first glance, it may seem that learning the PHP programming language will not give the expected result, first of all, to see the seemingly simple words “Hello world”, you need to insert a whole bunch of programs.
At the moment PHP is beginning to become the most popular language in web programming, of course, at the beginning of learning PHP it is a bit difficult to understand PHP, it is much more difficult to understand PHP than html and ccs, and JavaScript scripts are easier to add to the site than PHP scripts, because the result will appear immediately, and in PHP without a server, the browser will simply display the code.
In a PHP script, unlike JavaScript, a beginner will have to scratch the top of his head a little bit to see the result, because first you need to install a local server, and only then enter the address correctly, and most importantly, change the file extension to PHP, because you won’t be able to see the result.
PHP can be used to solve many important tasks. One of them has already been discussed in previous posts, it is a contact form, using html you can only create a contact form. And you can make the user send you their data only with the help of a web programming language, one of which is PHP.
One more important aspect is that if you are going to blog in pure html code, you will have to create a new file for each article, you will have to add and edit texts manually. But with the help of the PHP programming language, just one file is enough for this, and the posts will be stored in the database.
You can add a lot of other useful things to your site using PHP, for example, you can create a very interesting element where the background picture can change depending on the season, in general, the main advantages are that PHP can work with databases as well as with files on the server.
And there is much more, now I will give some examples that will show the usefulness of learning PHP. I’ll take the code from my previous post for a contact form. If you simply add the PHP code and the contact form shown below, then when you open the browser page, you will see a regular white background with a contact form. The form in the code is completely working, by the way, it has a simple but still protection.
And of course, a clean white background, although working, but for your site, which probably has a completely different beautifully made design, a clean white background will not “fit in” at all.