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PHP: A Beginners Guide - End
Friday, August 29th, 2008 | PHP | No Comments
I have decided that is is in my best interest to talk more about advanced topics instead of basics since the PHP Documentation covers all of the basics. It is a good read, and I think everybody should at least read through it for a basic understanding. From now on, I am going to go over more advanced topics on how to implement the functions and operators you learned from reading the documentation.
PHP: A Beginners Guide - Part 3
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | PHP | No Comments
Introduction
Today we will go over a more complex concept and really get our hands wet. We are going to go over something that is the core of all server side dynamic websites. Parsing form input.
For a little refresher I am going to define some terms that will be used throughout this article.
Form: The XHTML tag used to define the area of feild(s) where users can input values.
Action: The URL the browser redirects to after the user submits the form (usually a script that processes the data).
Method: The “method” used to submit the form to the server.
GET: The form method where the input is sent through the URL (ex: process.php?FormName1=Value1&FormName2=Value2).
POST: The form method where the input is sent through a message body (hidden to end users).
Query string: The portion of the url after the file extension which contains the data (ex ?FormName1=Value1&FormName2=Value2).
Today we will discuss when to use GET or POST methods, how to send Data through the URL without a form, How to retrieve GET and POST data using PHP, and how to display the data on your web page.
PHP: A Beginners Guide - Part 2
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | PHP | No Comments
Today I am going to go over how to use PHP within XHTML to generate valid documents. As I hope everyone knows, an example of an empty Transitional XHTML document is as below.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<title>Basic XHTML</title>
</head><body>
</body>
</html>
PHP: A Beginners Guide - Part 1
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | PHP | 1 Comment
I would like to start by stating there are many websites on the net which have very similar tutorials on PHP, and pretty much everything you can think of. People, however, also learn in many different ways. I am putting this guide together in a fashion which would have best helped me learn when I was starting out. That said, let’s begin.
PHP Magazine
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | PHP | No Comments
I’ve recently subscribed to PHP Architect, a monthly magazine available in PDF and print formats, due to a recommendation from a friend. In reading reviews, it seems that they cover topics which are not easily accessible by just doing a Google search. I find this a little hard to believe, as I Google everything, and always come up with an answer in short time.