Why should you learn PHP when there are two many “better” languages available? It’s easy to learn. You can build practical web apps within a week of starting. Finally a huge number of legacy web apps such as WordPress, Drupal, and many of the open source projects that you download were coded in PHP. To be a professional you’ll need to have 5 or more languages under your belt, and although PHP may not be the one you end up preferring to use, it’s a good one to be comfortable with.
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PHP – Send Shell Commands with shell_exec()
The shell_exec() function allows you to send commands to the Command Line using PHP. You can use this for everything from pinging websites, to calling installed apps such as FFMPEG. shell_exec() also returns the results […]
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PHP – Code Reuse – include
Using includes you can reuse the same code in multiple scripts.
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MySQL – HTML Form Validation with PHP (filter_var)
You can validate that variable values look how they are supposed to by using filter_var in PHP. Filter_var determines if an email address, IP address, Int, Float, etc are formatted how they are supposed to […]
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