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Hello, and welcome, I'm Alena.
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PHP is a popular choice for website development,
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when adding advanced functionality such as showing your tweets and
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instagram photos on your own website, or receiving feedback from an online form.
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PHP can also make websites easier to maintain as they grow, by using template
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files which allow us to use the same code and content on multiple pages.
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We're going to use PHP to build a functioning personal media library.
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With this web app you'll be able to keep track of your books, movies and
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music in an online collection.
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We'll also build a suggestion form that sends us an email so
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you can send yourself a reminder to add something you just bought.
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You would use these same exact patterns to build any number of complex web
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applications, such as shopping carts, social networks, forums, blogs, and more.
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PHP provides the tools you need to command the web.
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