PHP Basics - Overview

Congrats!! You have so far covered almost each and every building block of PHP scripting language and all these topics will help you in...

PHP Basics – Part 8 :: Control Structures – Part 4

File-Inclusion Statements Efficient programmers are always thinking in terms of ensuring reusability and modularity. The most prevalent...

PHP Basics – Part 8 :: Control Structures - Part 3

The foreach Statement The foreach looping construct syntax is adept at looping through arrays , pulling each key/value pair from the a...

PHP Basics – Part 8 :: Control Structures - Part 2

Looping Statements Although varied approaches exist, looping statements are a fixture in every widespread programming language. Loopi...

PHP Basics – Part 8 :: Control Structures – Part 1

Control structures determine the flow of code within an application, defining execution characteristics such as whether and how many time...

PHP Basics–Part 7 :: String Interpolation

When you need to control which php [ more about php scripting language ] code should be parsed and which should not or you want to beauti...

PHP Basics - Part 6 :: Expressions–Part 3

  Equality Operators Equality operators (see Table below) , as the name suggest, are used to compare two values, testing for equivale...

PHP Basics - Part 6 :: Expressions – Part 2

Assignment Operators The assignment operators assign a data value to a variable . The simplest form of assignment operator just assign...

PHP Basics - Part 6 :: Expressions – Part 1

All expressions consist of at least one operand and one or more operators. A few examples follow: $a = 5; // assign integer value 5 to...

PHP Basics - Part 4 :: continued

Converting Between Data Types Using Type Casting Converting values from one datatype to another is known as type casting. A variable ...

PHP Basics - Part 4 :: PHP’s Supported Data Types

A datatype is the generic name assigned to any data sharing a common set of characteristics. Common data types include Boolean, integer...

PHP Basics

So far you have learnt about prerequisites for PHP to run on your computer, installation and configuration procedures (of PHP/Apache/IIS)...