In this first PHP introductory lesson, we take a look at, Why Learn PHP, Introduction to PHP Programming Language, Codecademy Free Full PHP Programming Course. This video goes into what our free full PHP course will include. Learning to code in PHP is extremely powerful and as mentioned in this lesson was introduced in 1994. PHP is a server-side programming language that works great with HTML! We also learn what this course content will include. The first section will be, “Getting Started with PHP”. Here we will learn how PHP is used today in web development to make dynamic web pages! In the second section, we learn about PHP variables. Here we learn about string and number data types in PHP. In section 3 we have an intro to functions in PHP. Here we learn how to create our own reusable blocks of code. In section 4 we learn about PHP Built-In Functions. These are functions that come installed in Vanilla PHP, or PHP with no extras. In section 5 we learn PHP arrays. Learning about arrays in PHP deals with 2 types of arrays, ordered and associative arrays. We will learn how to access and manipulate arrays! In section 6 we take a look at HTML Form Handling in PHP. This will help us learn how we can use PHP to handle HTML forms. In part 7 we take a look at Conditionals and Logic in PHP. Section 8 is loops in PHP. Part 9 is PHP form Validation, and 10 will be Classes and Objects in PHP.