Archive for the ‘ Php Overview ’ Category

PHP and OOP

Tweet PHP is mainly a procedural programming language. Procedural programming is so called because the program code gives a set of instructions (i.e. an algorithm) for processing a particular task or set of tasks. When programming in a procedural manner, the programmer usually breaks down the task/tasks in a top-down manner; this means the program [...][ READ MORE ]

Unmaintainable PHP

Tweet With the recent unemployment rates, everybody realizes that job security is important. The best way to keep a job is to be irreplaceable. If no one can maintain the code you write, you have a job for life. Writing unmaintainable code is a special skill that seems to come quite naturally to certain developers. [...][ READ MORE ]

Apache for Beginners

TweetWay back when, in the wilds of 1995, there were a great many people who were disgruntled with the state of Web servers. The commercial ones, like Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server) and Netscape’s family of servers, hadn’t been born yet, and the ones put out by college students – well, they sucked. But lo! [...][ READ MORE ]

PHP Tutorial for Beginners

Tweet Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 What Is PHP? 2 What you’ll need 3 Steps 3.1 The Basics 3.1.1 Basic Syntax 3.1.2 Code Syntax 3.2 Your First Script 3.3 Error Messages 3.4 A Few More Statements 3.5 Very Able Variables 3.5.1 Naming Variables 3.6 HTML Forms and PHP 3.6.1 Get versus Post 3.7 Arrays 3.8 Associative [...][ READ MORE ]

Beginners PHP

Tweet > PHP Section One – An Introduction to PHP 1. What is PHP and Why do I need it? 2. What you need to get started 3. Installing and testing Easy PHP4. Troubleshooting > PHP Two – Getting Started With Variables 1. What is a Variable? 2. Putting text into variables 3. Variables – [...][ READ MORE ]