PHP misunderstandings

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I am sure it was an error on my part but I thought I was told PHP could run on the clients side like javascript does. I am reading a book and don't really see any of that exaplained. Was I misinformed?

Also, does anyone know of a good PHP tutorial that might help me get a jump start? Thanks.

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And what does the /n/n do that I keep seeing?

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PHP is strictly server side.

\n stands for NewLine. \n\n would mean two newlines. You'll see it a lot with print() and echo(). People are just adding 'enter's to their HTML code....

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thank you very much. It makes a lot more sense now.

does anyone have any suggestions for good tutorials?

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tutorials?

http://php.net has a great manual, a function lookup, and a links page that has sites with tutorials.

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alright, thanks.

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http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/ contains a whole slew of tutorials, ranging from the basics to building an E-Commerce site.

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/228
A great tutorial on PHP+MySQL.

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They have been bookmarked and will be read later today. Thanks.

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