Category Archives: PHP

Hosting solutions for Professional PHP

As one of the most popular scripting language for designing web pages, finding the right hosting solution for professional PHP purposes can be a tricky proposition. To develop websites in PHP you need a hosting server that is equipped with a PHP module, but many developers prefer the freedom of being able to install a…

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Conditional Operators – Learning PHP for absolute beginners

The power of any programming language is all about making decisions based on user selection. Conditional operators (conditional statements) execute code only when certain condition is met. If the expressions inside the parentheses () evaluate to true, the code between braces {} is executed. If it is false, then the code between braces is skipped.…

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PHP operators and expressions – Learning PHP for absolute beginners

This time around we’ll tackle one more rather interesting and really crucial notion in PHP and for that matter in any other programming language. PHP operators allow you to perform different operations with numeric variables. It is necessary to specify two operands and the appropriate symbol of mathematical operation. For example, the operation of addition…

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Learning PHP for absolute beginners – data types

PHP can work with 8 different types of data, which can be separated into 3 categories: scalar data types, compound data types and special data types. Not that scary as it might sound. You already know half of that stuff. Of course if you attended math classes at school 🙂 … I did not 😉

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PHP variable – Learning PHP for absolute beginners

In this tutorial we’ll cover the bread and butter of any programming language, including our beloved PHP – the variable. So what is it? Think of it as a container which holds some specific value.

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Learning PHP for absolute beginners – Your first PHP script

Welcome back, my young padavan 😉 Our series of tutorials Learning PHP for absolute beginners continues on, and in this one we’ll meet the PHP script (or code) for the first time. Don’t worry. I’ll make sure that it’s as pleasant as possible in these circumstances.

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Learning PHP for absolute beginners – Introduction

Before we start learning PHP we should at least get a basic idea of what that is. So here it is: PHP is a server-side scripting language originally created for building interactive and dynamic websites. The syntax of PHP is quite similar to C and Pascal. Not much, heh? Well, I’m not a history teacher,…

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How to setup a local server using WAMP

New to websites, CMS, PHP and all that stuff? Don’t want to pay for a server and domain name till you learn what that all stuff really means? Or maybe you want to test WordPress or some other CMS on your PC, before uploading it to a production server? There is one way to “fix”…

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How to Create an HTML/PHP Contact Form – Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Dropdown Menus

Welcome back to our contact form tutorial series. If you’re not exactly sure why I’m saying “back”, check this link. This is the third episode and in this tutorial we’re gonna learn how to add different types of inputs to the contact form and process that with PHP. It’ll make your contact form look absolutely…

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How to Create an HTML/PHP Contact Form – Processing Form Data with PHP

In the previous tutorial – creating HTML PHP contact form – we successfully created a basic layout for the contact form. By the way, I’ve also added 2 screencasts to the post for those of you guys who really prefer video content to textual. So, if you wish to watch instead of read, you can…

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