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Generating a Full HTML Page

Again, your new script will generate the traditional "Hello, World!" greeting. However, this time you will only use PHP to generate an HTML web page on the fly. Follow the simple steps below.

Get to the directory where you are storing your PHP code.

Create a new file called helloworld2.php so that it looks like the following code.

<?php
// PHP echoing "Hello World in HTML"
// Using Newline character
// helloworld2.php
echo "<html>\n";
echo " <head>\n";
echo "  <title>Hello World in HTML</title>\n";
echo " </head>\n";
echo " <body>\n";
echo "  <p>Hello, World!</p>\n";
echo " </body>\n";
echo "</html>\n";
?>

In your favorite web browser, type
```
http://localhost/~YOURID/test_php/helloworld2.php
```
where YOURID is the user ID you have on the system.

Notes

To generate HTML code that is readable as such, a newline character (hex 0A) is appended to each line of code being produced. Since newline is a non-printable character, the backslash (\), is used as a precedence code to indicate that the following n is actually to be interpreted as a newline character. This usage is the same as in other languages such as C, C++, and Java.