PHP Basics

This is post 7 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions This week I rewrote one of the PHP tasks from earlier and created a new function to emulate the functionality of str_pad.  The...

This is post 6 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions PHP provides many different functions for manipulating strings.  Some of the more common functions are provided here, however for a...

This is post 5 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions This week I have been focusing on the first few chapters of Doyle (2010), specifically on PHP language basics, decisions and...

This is post 4 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions Conditional statements (or decisions) and loops make up a good portion of programming code in general.  I am familiar with these...

This is post 3 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions Variables in PHP are similar to define and use as with other programming languages.  PHP uses loose typed variables, in other...

This is post 2 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions This week I have been reading the first five chapters of Beginning PHP 5.3, Doyle (2010).  Chapter 1 gave a good overview of PHP...

This is post 1 of 7 in the series “PHP Basics” An introductory series to PHP development Dynamic Websites Introduction to PHP Data Types, Variables and Constants Conditional Statements and Looping PHP Language Basics Strings More PHP String Functions This summer I have enrolled in a Dynamic Websites independent study for my graduate program.  The course will focus mainly on...