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Hi and welcome to a basic PHP tutorial.

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I'll just go through how to use the "echo" function and how to set up your tags .

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Those of you that are familiar with "html" will know that there are html tags to start your page and to end your page.

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They're not vital in an html page. As long as you've got an html extension, you're fine.

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However, in PHP, you need the tags. This starts and this ends.

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That's basically the standard notation for it.

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However, our content goes in between here.

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Now, I've already saved my file as "helloworld.php".

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So, let's save that and have a look in here.

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Okay, there's nothing in the page at the moment but we've got our page set up. It's absolutely fine.

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The "echo" function works like this: we've got echo, we've got some double quotes and we've got a line terminator which is the semicolon mark.

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And our text goes in between here.  Let's save that and we'll refresh.  And there we go.

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Right, you can – and I find this very useful – write your "echo" function like this.

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Because when you put an html code inside your echo function these bits here don't represent line breaks. (and just to let you know, if you haven't learnt html yet I suggest you pick it up, at least the basics, because we're going to be using it quite a lot)

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For that you need to add your own html in. So '' for line break and then 'New line'.

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We'll refresh this and there you go! Our html has been incorporated.

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Okay, just to let you know, this is one thing that a lot of people run into: 'image source equals' and your file goes there.

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However, at the moment we've got 'echo'.

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This shows that we're going to start our output and this here will show that we're ending our output.

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We don't end it here; we're going to end it here.

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So instead of these, we'll need inverted commas.

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Basically, that will let us show our image there.

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There's no file specified, but you get the picture.

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So, let me just show you what would happen if we keep these in and then with that I'll end the tutorial.

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Right, we've got 'Parse error'.

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We either need a comma or a semicolon to end, which proves that as we're coming up to here, we need a semicolon after this.

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But in actual fact, that's not true.

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So, just keep them as inverted commas.

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Okay, that's the basics of the echo function and the PHP tags.  Hope you enjoyed learning them.

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