Converting HTML stlyes

[guitarman]

Hi there, I am currently learning how to code php, having used asp.net for a few years I have decided to expand my horizons a bit with some php.

I have started simple by converting a html site into php, however I have hit a small issue.

The original site had a linked css stylesheet linked to it instead of inline styles. I have just switched all the <p> </p> tags to <?php echo " "; ?> however I do not know what to now call the tag in the stylesheet.

Is it php, or echo, or php echo, or <?php ... HELP!

[RFH Reseller: nick]

The HTML markup

<p> </p>

and the PHP

<?php echo " "; ?>

Are performing entirely different roles.

PHP is an embedded scripting language, meaning that it can be interspersed with HTML markup, it is in no way a direct replacement for HTML markup.

<?php is the opening tag tells the PHP interpreter that what is coming up is to be interpreted as PHP, rather than just left untouched. ?> is the closing tag, saying that, after this point leave the output alone.
echo is a global PHP function that causes the subsequent argument to be output.

Here are just a few examples, they achieve exactly the same result.
//all HTML

<p>lorem ipsum</p>

//All PHP

<?php
 echo "<p>lorem ipsum</p>";
?>

//A mix of both

<p><?php echo "lorem ipsum"; ?></p>

As you are ultimately creating an HTML web page, there is no special way to include a style sheet, you just construct the usual HTML markup.

So, I'm not quite sure I understand where the misunderstanding is getting in, and I hope that somehow starts clearing up the mystery?

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

PHP is more like classic ASP I think, more or less a straight forward language. (I know, they are totally differently languages). asp.NET on the onther hand does have quite some functions that create HTML tags when using them.

Hance the misunderstanding, I think.