Locating array elements

The ability to efficiently sift through data is absolutely crucial in today’s information-driven society. This article introduces severa...

Adding and Removing Array Elements

PHP provides a number of functions for both growing and shrinking an array ( what is an array? ) . Some of these functions are provided...

Outputting Arrays

Now that you know what is an array ? and how to create an array ?, it is the time to learn how to output arrays . The most common way to ...

Creating Arrays

Unlike other languages, PHP doesn’t require that you assign a size to an array at creation time. In fact, because it’s a loosely typed l...

Arrays

Being a programmer you will be tackling large heaps of data many a times, in php also, like storing the username, email, password and o...

Functions in php – Part 4

Recursive Functions Recursive functions, or functions that call themselves, offer considerable practical value to the programmer and a...

Functions in php – Part 3

Using Type Hinting PHP 5 introduced a new feature known as Type hinting , which gives you the ability to force parameters to be object...

Functions in php – Part 2

Passing Arguments by Value You‘ll often find it useful to pass data into a function . As an example, let’s create a function that calcu...

Functions in php – Part 1

You’ll often find that some tasks are comprised of bits of logic which can be reused elsewhere, not only within the same application bu...

Conversion Specifier for printf() and sprintf()

You have already been told about the Type specifiers for printf() and scanf(). Now here’s the complete list of conversion specifiers fo...

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...