Can i do php in visual studio?

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?

Markus Safar

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asked May 10, 2012 at 7:22

Code RatchetCode Ratchet

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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.

Zze

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answered May 10, 2012 at 8:21

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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/

answered Dec 3, 2016 at 17:55

mojmir.novakmojmir.novak

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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.

Quirk

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answered May 10, 2012 at 8:28

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answered Jan 10, 2014 at 18:58

ReviousRevious

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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 and ends with ?>.

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):

   Hello World!