PHP Lab 1: The basics

Try out the PHP built-in server. To do so, you can for example write the file date.php:

<?php
echo "It is ".date('H:i:s');

Then run:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

Then go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/date.php and look at the result.

Set up your favorite editor, or pick one for web development.

We recommend for example Visual Studio Code, Atom, NetBeans, PhpStorm etc.

Create a simple home page that gives access to all the exercises you will do during this course (sorted by lab session).

Whenever you complete an exercise, add a link so that it can be reached from this page.

Create a PHP page that displays the multiplication tables in an HTML table (<table>...).

Make the first row and the first column (the "1 2 3 4...") appear in bold.

Make the multiplication results clickable, by loading the same page with GET parameters so that the row and the column of the clicked number are highlighted in yellow, which should look like this: