Diving into PHP: Day 16

Continuing on with our OOP review, we’ll begin to build a real-world database abstraction class. We’ll review the __construct magic method, as well as the mysqli object.

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Diving into PHP: Day 15

Continuing with our OOP review, today, we’ll create a very simple “calculator” class that should give you a better idea of how abstracting your code to its own class can save you a great deal of time. We’ll also take a look at the helpful “__construct” method, as well as creating variables. Enjoy!

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HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery Killer Tutorials

Getting started with HTML, CSS, PHP or jQuery can seem like a daunting task for many beginners. Some people think you need to go to school for these subjects but as many of you already know, there is an abundance of free resources to get you well on your way to becoming a pro in any of these subjects. Here are some killer tutorials and screencast series which cover the most popular topics (HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery).

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Diving into PHP: Day 14

It’s been a while, but we’re back with Day 14 of our “Diving into PHP” series. Today, we’ll begin researching OOP techniques. We’ll start with a basic overview of classes and functions, and will then move into some more real-world and complicated examples in future tutorials.

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What’s In Store?

Hi everyone. I thought I’d briefly go over what’s in store for the blog. To stir things up a bit, I’ll be making a few changes to increase the number of quality tutorials that we’ll be offering each week. In addition, I’ll be rolling out a new video series!

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Diving into PHP: Day 13

Hey everyone. Just a note that Day 13 of this series was posted on the nettuts+ blog. I’m hoping to attract more subscribers, so that we can ultimately put even more effort into bringing you great tutorials. Feel free to ask questions on either site. Watch it now!

Diving into PHP: Day 12

We’ll take a short break from working with MySQL in order to analyze how to work with the file system. Today, you’ll learn how to use the “file” function, as well as “fopen”, “fgets”, and “fputs”.

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How to Create PDF Files With PHP

PDF is the de-facto electronic document standard because of its security and integrity. Making a PDF isn’t limited to high-end desktop software though; they can be created quite easily on the fly from your web application. Add in a sprinkle of free code, and you got one great recipe for PDF-ala-mode! In this tutorial I’ll show you with PHP and FPDF.

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Diving into PHP: Day 11

Continuing on from Day 10, we’ll review SQL insert statements that will allow us to add new rows to our MySql database with PHP. Additionally, we’ll take a look at using foreach statements to loop through an array.

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Diving into PHP: Day 10

I promised you last week that we’d begin working with databases in Day 10. I’ll show you how easy it is to get up and running with MySql. We’ll also review the correct way to retrieve information from our new database.

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