Tuesday, April 21, 2009 No Comments
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.
Tags: PHP, Screencast
Category: PHP
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 No Comments
In our last CakePHP tutorial we looked at setting up the CakePHP framework and introduced some of the framework’s basic concepts and terminology. Now we turn to illustrating more of CakePHP’s rapid development capabilities using a personal blog application as an example. In the next set of tutorials we will build the blog application incrementally
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 No Comments
CakePHP is an open-source framework for PHP intended to make developing, deploying and maintaining applications much easier. CakePHP offers many useful design patterns, such as the Model-View-Controller pattern, seen in other popular frameworks like Ruby On Rails. The CakePHP framework also provides a slew of valuable reusable libraries for dealing with common tasks.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 No Comments
Numerous examples from robots to bicycles have been offered as “easy” explanations of what OOP is. I’ve opted to show you how OOP works with a real-life example, for a programmer. By creating a MySQL CRUD class you can easily create, read, update and delete entries in any of your projects, regardless of how the database is designed.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 No Comments
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to upload files, and how to use regular expressions to ensure that inappropriate file types aren’t uploaded to your server.
Tags: PHP, regular expressions, Screencast
Category: PHP
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 No Comments
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”.
Tags: function, PHP, Screencast
Category: PHP
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 No Comments
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.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 No Comments
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.
Tags: database, PHP, Screencast
Category: PHP
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 No Comments
Starting with day 9, I’m going to begin teaching you some practical uses of PHP. Today, I’ll show you how to detect whether or not a user has visited your site previously. This operation can then be used to add a “welcome” box to your site
Tags: PHP, Screencast
Category: PHP
