8. Creating Dynamic Pages With PHP

In the previous lesson, you:

• installed and configured your full development environment
• configured a custom URL to use with your web application

What you'll learn and do in this lesson:

• learn to use PHP to separate structure and information
• use PHP to create a reusable page template
• learn how to extract information from a URL and create your first truly "dynamic" page

The lesson:

What you should do now:

Do these Exercises:

1. Discovering Request Variables In The Wild
2. Commit your changes to your Git repository and push them up to GitHub
3. Write an entry in your Journal for this lesson

Terms covered in this lesson:

PHP

the programming language used to help build your web application

variable

a reusable symbol that you can assign a certain value to

function

a command that performs a specific task; PHP has many built-in functions

request variable

a variable passed via a URL

if / elseif statement

lets you perform different actions based on certain conditions