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PHP is an extremely popular web server programming language. It is run on more than 20 million domains. It is popular because it is open-source and has a gentle learning curve. PHP stands for [i]PHP: [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on February 11, 2011 at 5:24PM
A strong point of PHP is functions. A function is a predefined procedure that can be executed at any time. You can call a function a couple of ways. PHP has hundreds of built-in functions. If you can' [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on February 28, 2011 at 10:04PM
In the last "Learning PHP" post, we looked at how to install PHP and do basic things, like printing text. Today, we'll jump in with both feet and look at some foundational PHP concepts. Let's start wi [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on February 20, 2011 at 12:00AM
Today, we finish looking at the core features of PHP. Being core features, you will find yourself using them many times in various ways in the future. [h2]Arrays[/h2] PHP's ease of handling arrays was [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on March 19, 2011 at 9:49PM
Web blogs, online shopping catalogs, social networking websites, forums, news sites and photo galleries all have [i]one thing[/i] in common: databases.
[h2]What is a Database?[/h2]
The word [b [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on April 4, 2011 at 7:48PM
Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a revolutionary web programming language. Once I started to read about it, it became quite obvious why. The goal of Ruby is to make the code closer to spoken language and less o [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on April 18, 2011 at 6:06AM
In this post, you will learn more about SQL queries. We will look at how to select, order, update and delete data, as well as alter the structure of database tables. This image that I used in the last [read more]
Posted by Eli Mitchell on May 4, 2011 at 8:50AM