An introductory series to PHP development
PHP Basics
This summer I have enrolled in a Dynamic Websites independent study for my graduate program. The course will focus mainly on developing PHP programming... 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... Variables in PHP are similar to define and use as with other programming languages. PHP uses loose typed variables, in other words they do not have... Conditional statements (or decisions) and loops make up a good portion of programming code in general. I am familiar with these concepts though other... This week I have been focusing on the first few chapters of Doyle (2010), specifically on PHP language basics, decisions and loops and strings. PHP provides many different functions for manipulating strings. Some of the more common functions are provided here, however for a full listing of all... This week I rewrote one of the PHP tasks from earlier and created a new function to emulate the functionality of str_pad. The function...