PHP 101 (part 5): Rank and File
by Vikram Vaswani |
23 comments | Wednesday, July 21, 2004
When you first started reading this series, I promised you that you’d have a whole lot of fun. If you’re the cynical type, you may be feeling that I didn’t keep my promise. After all, how much fun have you really had so far? All you’ve done is learn a bunch of theoretical rules, added and subtracted numbers from each other, learnt primitive decision-making and gone round and round in the circular funhouse of loops. Heck, if this wasn’t a PHP tutorial, it would be kindergarten…I hear you.
PHP 101 (part 4): The Food Factor
by Vikram Vaswani |
12 comments | Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Having spent lots of time travelling around the outer landscape of PHP – learning all about control structures, operators and variables – you’re probably bored. You might even be thinking of dropping out right now, and instead spending your time more constructively (or so you think) in front of the idiot box. That would be a big mistake. And when I say big, I mean humongous.
PHP 101 (part 3): Looping The Loop
by Vikram Vaswani |
25 comments | Monday, July 19, 2004
If you’ve been paying attention, you remember that in Part Two I gave you a quick crash course in PHP’s basic control structures and operators. I also showed you how PHP can be used to process the data entered into a Web form. In this tutorial, I’m going to delve deeper into PHP’s operators and control structures, showing you two new operators, an alternative to the if-else() family of conditional statements, and some of PHP’s more interesting loops.
PHP 101 (part 1): Down the Rabbit Hole
by Vikram Vaswani |
54 comments | Saturday, July 17, 2004
If you’re new to Web development, you could be forgiven for thinking that it consists of no more than a mass of acronyms, each one more indecipherable than the last. ASP, CGI, SOAP, XML, HTTP – the list seems never-ending, and the sheer volume of information on each of these can discourage the most avid programmer. But before you put on your running shoes and flee, there’s a little secret you should know. To put together a cutting-edge Web site, chock full of all the latest bells and whistles, there’s only one acronym you really need to know: PHP
PHP 101 (part 2): Calling All Operators
by Vikram Vaswani |
39 comments | Saturday, July 17, 2004
In Part One of this series, I gave you a brief introduction to PHP, and how it fits into your Web application development environment. I also taught you the basics of PHP variables, and showed you how to add, multiply and concatenate them together.
PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner
by Vikram Vaswani |
67 comments | Saturday, July 17, 2004
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.
