Posted by A.Translator on 01/23/06 10:15

Bent Stigsen schreef op 23-1-2006
> er definition, "PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language.",
> which basically means that, if you take a html-page, and change the extension
> to .php, then that page is a perfectly valid php-script. You could embed
> PHP-code whereever you want on the page and optionally output something at
> that place.

What does 'optionally output' mean?

> PHP can actually output any type of document/data, however for embedded
> scripting, it is limited to document-formats that does not collide with the
> PHP open/close tags.

What do you mean with 'collide'? I have seen several <font> tags within the php
open/close tags, byt that is obviously not what you mean.

> To answer your original question, when using php as a server-side HTML
> embedded scripting language, the browser will not see any difference between
> requesting a html-page or a php-page, other than the extension of course.
> Stylesheets are handled by the browser, unrelated to the php-code at the
> server or the extension of the requested file.

So I should be able to link.
I'll try again.

Thanks for your patience and clear explanation.


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