phpbox code question

[hivelord]

Yeah, I'm getting better at PHP myself.

I realized that, really, all it does is present dynamic content to webpages. Here, I thought itwas a full fledged programming language or something.

I'm sure it can do much more than just write HTML, but it sure does that well.

[Bjørn]

oh yes, much more. And it is a programming language. It has all the usual constructs with objects,if/then, select,do/while,strings/math etc.

It even exists a program to translate PHP scripts/applications to WIndows programs, just with a extra library for accomandate for what the server usually does.

The html part is really very simple - it just takes what you put into the echo statement, and do all kinds of manipulations on it, thereafter just "writes"(echo) it out to the browser. Its the browser that actually translates html, PHP is the powerful "shaper" of the material it gets from either manually put in, databasebased or fed by POST values.