Formatting PHP page

[yasmine]

Hi friends,
Is there any way to format a webpage by only PHP?
What i'm asking is can we format a php page such as (bold, center alignment,etc.) without using html???


Thanx n regards.

[ronverdonk]

In the browser there is no PHP page. PHP is just a server-side script language that constructs HTML pages and sends them to the client. So if you want to make-up your browser page, you do it with HTML (or CSS) attributes.

Ronald

[harshmaul]

Hi Yasmine,
The short answer is no. but read on....
PHP is a server side language that sends out html to the browser to display to the user.

The client Requests a page, the server recieves this request and sends out a response (html, xml or anything else). The PHP we write controls what the server sends out. So if a user is requesting a page to display in a browser, the PHP whould respond in HTML using PHP to print out anything that needs to be bespoke to thier request.

if you don't understand, google request response.

http://www.codersadvocate.com/blogs/43/Request_Response/

But again, No php can't directly control presentation... .

It can appear to control presentation by printing out the html, but it is still presentation by HTML.

[yasmine]

I understood.
Thanx n Regards,
yasmine.