PHP For PERL Experts

This chapter will show how PHP and PERL are alike and how they are different. This will make it easy for PERL developers to learn PHP and avoid making common…

PHP for C Experts

PHP for C Experts is easiest to understand as interpreted C that can be put into HTML documents. The language itself is similar to C, but variables are not typed,…

OOP in PHP

Why Learn OOP in PHP? Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP is one of the most powerful ways to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code. Unlike procedural programming where logic is…

Bugs Debugging PHP

Rarely do programmes work right the first time. There are a lot of things that could go wrong with your programme and cause the PHP interpreter to show an error…

Error & Exception Handling PHP

Error & Exception Handling PHP is the process of figuring out what went wrong with your programme and fixing it. If you don\'t deal with errors the right way, it…

PHP A to Z Function References

PHP has a lot of functions that come with it. Here is a list of different types of important functions. There are a lot of other types of functions that…

PHP & XML Parsers

What does XML mean? The markup language XML looks a lot like the markup language HTML. A plain-text XML document has tags that are separated by and >. XML and…

AJAX & PHP

What exactly is AJAX? AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. With the help of XML, HTML, CSS, and Java Script, AJAX is a new way to make…

PHP & MySQL

PHP works with almost all database software, like Oracle and Sybase, but the most popular database is MySQL, which is free. With PHP, you can connect to databases and change…

PHP Exceptions

What is a PHP Exceptions case? An error or strange thing that a PHP script does is described by an object called an exception. Many PHP functions and classes throw…