PHP Basics – Syntax for Dummies

Posted April 23rd, 2009 in PHP, Programming by Aaron

There is a lot of PHP specific syntax that every PHP programmer uses in their day to day work, that everyone has just learned that it is the way it is meant to be. But, to truly be able to go through, read someone’s code and truly understand it, you need to know exactly what the syntax means, and why it’s formatted that way. Throughout this small post, there are just some thoughts and practices for coding using the PHP syntax.

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PHP Basics – The Operators (Part 2)

Posted April 21st, 2009 in PHP, Programming by Aaron

In our first section, we talked about the multiple ways that you can use the equals sign to assign variables or compare them, based on value and type. In part 2 of this series, we are going to dive deeper into the comparison operators, and exactly how they function. There is a lot of basic programming concepts here, but where better to start than the basics.

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