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Asked: 2026-05-20T04:58:56+00:00

What is the big difference between PHP and JavaScript? Can we do website only

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What is the big difference between PHP and JavaScript?

Can we do website only with PHP (and HTML) or is it absolutely necessary you need JavaScript too?

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    PHP runs on the server.

    Javascript runs within the browser (what’s called the client).

    They are completely distinct. You can do a website without Javascript; however, any in-browser “scripts” will not run with PHP being given to the browser, since the browser does not understand PHP.

    So think about it like this…

    1. You create a PHP page on your server, called mypage.php.
    2. Within it contains PHP code.
    3. The PHP code is parsed on the server when accessed over HTTP (http://example.com/mypage.php).
    4. Which sends the output, or HTML and other “resources” (Javascript and CSS mostly), to the browser (client).

    Javascript would be part of the response to the browser requesting the mypage.php content. On the server, HTML/Javascript/CSS are considered a special kind of text, and have no bearing on the PHP code itself. PHP is meant to ease the management of outputting HTML/Javascript/CSS to browsers, mostly.

    A More Extensive Answer

    Server – mypage.php

    <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body p {
  background-color: #dddddd;
  color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">

alert('Thank you for visiting!');

</script>
</head>
<body>
<p><?php print 'Hello World!'; ?></p>
</body>
</html>

    What the browser (client) sees – http://example.com/mypage.php

    <html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body p {
  background-color: #dddddd;
  color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">

alert('Thank you for visiting!');

</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>

    Notice the script tags stay as they are, but the PHP tags go away. They are parsed by the PHP parser on the server-side, before outputting the HTML code (with style and script tags intact) to the browser (client).

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