How to use PHP with Visual Studio

Question

First let me say I ve never used PHP but I m looking to learn it  so my question is this how do you use PHP within Visual Studio Ultimate  is it similar to how you declare JQuery i e      document  ready function               Code goes here          I ve done multiple searches on Google  but I don t get the answer I m looking for   Or do I need a complete different bit of software to use it

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Maybe we should help you with a big misunderstanding on your side first: PHP is (like ASP.NET or whatever you used to far) a server side language while javascript is client side.

This means that PHP will run on your webserver and create a HTML page dynamically which is then sent to the browser. Javascript in turn is embedded (either directly or as a referenced file) into this HTML page and runs in the browser.

Maybe you can now understand why your approach so far could never work out.

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Here are some options    Visual Studio PHP  VS Php   PHP Tools for Visual Studio by DEVSENSE    Or you can check this list of PHP editor reviews

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Try Visual Studio Code  Very good support for PHP and other languages directly or via extensions   It can not replace power of Visual Studio but it is powerful addition to Visual Studio  And you can run it on all OS  Windows  Linux  Mac        https   code visualstudio com

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I don t understand how other answers don t answer the original question about how to use PHP  not very consistent with the title   PHP files or PHP code embedded in HTML code start always with the tag  lt  php and ends with   gt      You can embed PHP code inside HTML like this  you have to save the file using  php extension to let PHP server recognize and process it  ie  index php      lt body gt      lt  php echo   lt div gt Hello World  lt  div gt     gt   lt  body gt    or you can use a whole php file  ie  test php      lt  php      mycontent    Hello World    echo   lt div gt  mycontent lt  div gt      gt     is not mandatory to put this at the end of the file   there s no document ready in PHP  the scripts are processed when they are invoked from the browser or from another PHP file

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By default VS is not made to run PHP  but you can do it with extensions  You can install an add-on with the extension manager  PHP Tools for Visual Studio  If you want to install it inside VS  go to Tools  gt  Extension Manager  gt  Online Gallery  gt  Search for PHP where you will find PHP Tools  the link above  for Visual Studio  Also you have VS Php for Visual Studio  Both are not free  You have also a cool PHP compiler called Phalanger   If I m not mistaken  the code you wrote above is JavaScript  jQuery  and not PHP  If you want cool standalone IDE s for PHP   Free   Netbeans  https   netbeans org downloads start html platform windows amp lang en amp option php Eclipse  http   www eclipse org downloads packages eclipse-php-developers heliosr

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Maybe it s possible to debug PHP on Visual Studio  but it s simpler and more logical to use Eclipse PDT or Netbeans IDE for your PHP projects  aside from Visual Studio if you need to use both technologies from two different vendors

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