php is an intuitive way to learn web development from your browser. now that we've gotten xampp installed and know the fundamentals of an html document, let's write another one. what's up, doc? you forgot what to type?
don't worry, honey, that's all you'll need to remember that requires any degree of crystallized intelligence. Type it again, doc. Not to get too Meta here, but those characters you type that we call letters? They can come in different sets; luckily for us, all of our computers use Unicode, which can be displayed in a chart where each letter (a, b, c) corresponds to a different binary number with 8 digits (00000001, 10101010, 11111110). All means is that our computers are using the Unicode translation standard. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. It is a standard way that keyboard hardware communicates with your screen, so when you type that key, the binary code is sent from your kb to the screen. If you look up the UTF-8 chart, you can see what the binary value of every character on your keyboard is! Let's finish out the whole backbone of the document: