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0:54 with Alena Holligan

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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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