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Hey everyone Alana here.

Practice is vital to becoming a proficient developer.

It solidifies what you learned, causing it to stick in your memory.

With deliberate practice it becomes quicker and

easier to solve the challenges you'll face everyday.

So let's practice some PHP.

This practice session is intended to follow the PHP basics course.

If you haven't taken that course already, or

find this practice session too difficult, then review the PHP basics course first.

Check the notes associated with this video for additional links and resources.

Let's review the challenge.

This challenge includes some helper files for the HTML.

Besides the index file, there's a CSS file and

two files we'll be including into our page.

The instructions file contains the comments for

each of the six steps required to complete this challenge.

You will not be adding anything to the instructions file.

Instead, you'll implement each step for the index file.

Step one, rename the index file so that the PHP code will be executed.

Step two, add a code block to the top of the index file, and

create a variable named $title.

Set its value equal to "Top 5 Learning Tips".

Step three,

replace the two instances of the text title with your variable in such a way

that in a web browser the values of that variable will be displayed on the page.

Step four, replace the text include quotes by including

the HTML file learning quotes dot html from the inc folder.

Step five, replace the text include tips by including

the html file learning tips that html from the inc folder.

Step six, use the built-in date function

to replace the text date with today's date.

For this step,

you can use the documentation to figure out the specific formatting.

You may choose any format you wish.

I'll be using the full name of the month, followed by a space and

the two digit day, followed by a comma, space, then the four digit year.

Example, December 9th, 1906.

At any point, you can

preview the site in a browser by choosing the eye in the top right hand corner.

Remember, it's okay to make multiple attempts before coming to a solution.

That struggle to remember what you've learned and

apply it to the situation is what causes the knowledge to take root.

If you do get stuck I've included additional resources in the notes

associated with this video.

Go ahead and give it a try and I'll show you my solution in the next video.