Whenever you allow your users to submit text to your website, you need to be careful that you don’t leave…
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PHP – Magic Quotes
Prior to PHP 6 there was a feature called magic quotes that was created to help protect newbie programmers from…
Read MorePHP – POST & GET
Recall from the PHP Forms Lesson where we used an HTML form and sent it to a PHP web page…
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A “do while” loop is a slightly modified version of the while loop. If you recal from one of the…
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While a For Loop and While Loop will continue until some condition fails, the For Each loop will continue until…
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The for loop is simply a while loop with a bit more code added to it. The common tasks that…
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Repetitive tasks are always a burden to us. Deleting spam email, sealing 50 envelopes, and going to work are all…
Read MorePHP – Array
An array is a data structure that stores one or more values in a single value. For experienced programmers it…
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Creating Your First PHP Function When you create a function, you first need to give it a name, like myCompanyMotto.…
Read MorePHP – Forms
Creating the HTML Form If you need a refresher on how to properly make an HTML form, check out the…
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PHP Switch Statement: Speedy Checking With the use of the switch statement you can check for all these conditions at…
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An if/else statement is great if you only need to check for one condition. However, what would you do if…
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Using these conditional statements can add a new layers of “cool” to your website. Here’s the basic form of an…
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The if statement is necessary for most programming, thus it is important in PHP. Imagine that on January 1st you…
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Require vs Include When you include a file with the include command and PHP cannot find it you will see…
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Without understanding much about the details of PHP, you can save yourself a great deal of time with the use…
Read MoreUsing Comments in PHP
Comments in PHP are similar to comments that are used in HTML. The PHP comment syntax always begins with a…
Read MorePHP – Operators
In all programming languages, operators are used to manipulate or perform operations on variables and values. You have already seen…
Read MorePHP – Strings
PHP – String Creation Before you can use a string you have to create it! A string can be used…
Read MorePHP – Echo
As you saw in the previous lesson, the PHP command echo is a means of outputting text to the web…
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A variable is a means of storing a value, such as text string “Hello World!” or the integer value 4.…
Read MorePHP – syntax
PHP’s syntax and semantics are similar to most other programming languages (C, Java, Perl) with the addition that all PHP…
Read MorePHP Introduction
PHP – What is it? Taken directly from PHP’s home, PHP.net, “PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its…
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