I am currently embarking in the final stage of Hampton Paulk’s “PHP Functions” course at Treehouse. It’s been a good one so far. I’ve learned a lot. Hampton has a way of feeding information just slow enough as to be easily absorbed. In this post, I’m going to go over functions that are internal, or […]
PHP
The PHP category includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of coding websites with Hypertext Preprocessor. Discussion includes how to effectively utilize PHP to build dynamic, database driven websites and applications. Additional topics include syntax and structure, datatypes, operators, conditionals, loops and functions.
PHP Function Returns
Today, I’m going to continue on with my interpretation, or should I say – basically – my notes, on Hampton Paulk’s “PHP Functions” class over at Treehouse. I’ve been enjoying Hampton’s style and his teaching is remarkably understandable. In this post, I’m going to go over PHP function returns. Now, before I started writing today, […]
Working With PHP Functions
In this post, I’m going to talk about working with functions in PHP. In order to do that though, I think we should first get a working definition of what exactly a function is. Much like in other programming languages, a function in PHP is a section of code that receives input, completes a set […]
Conditional Statements & Loops in PHP
For this last section of my PHP series, I’m going to discuss conditional statements and loops in PHP. These two areas truly are at the heart of this programming language, so it’s important to get a solid understanding of what they do and how they work. Conditional Statements In the most basic sense, conditional statements […]
Operators in PHP
In PHP, operators are used to manipulate or perform operations on variables and values. And just like other programming languages, there are quite a few operators. These operators can be grouped under specific headings to help keep things a bit more organized. I’ll go over each group below. Before I begin though, I thought I’d […]
PHP Data Types
Do you remember back when I talked about variables in PHP? If not, you really should check out my post as I covered a lot of ground. If you don’t have the time, I’ll give you a very quick refresher here. Variables are containers to store data. It’s like you carve out spaces in your […]
PHP Variables, Statements, Comments & Whitespace
I’m going to cover a plethora of topics today, including some basic areas of beginning PHP. I think these are important to understand because, if you’re into this programming language, this is your foundation. Every day you code with PHP, you’ll use each of what I’ve included in the title of this post. You can’t […]
What is PHP?
Developing for WordPress requires a working knowledge of PHP. WordPress’ core code is written in PHP and PHP is used extensively in themes and plugins. While developing in Genesis, the use of PHP is minimized, but a developer still needs to understand functions, loops and arrays. With this in mind, I decided to brush up […]