> I am trying to understand in deatil exactly what PHP is, I know that it is > a > scripting markup type language, but..... > > Is it correct to say that PHP is essentially just C++ code wrapped in PHP > blocks which are embedded in HTML?
Well, more of a C/C++ syntax, actually. PHP has a lot of built in functions that make it different from C/C++. But, yeah, in an extremely broad manner, you could say that's what it is. The PHP code is evaluated and ran on the server and the resulting HTML is sent to the client. Note that you can't compile PHP, like C/C++. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php