PHP Programming (Beginner)

Sending data to PHP from an HTML form is easy.

You can use PHP to redirect visitors to your web page to different pages automatically. This can be good for maintenance tasks and for marketing tracking.

Cookies allow you to set variables that are persistent between multiple visits to a website.

Using includes you can reuse the same code in multiple scripts.

By turning a file into an array you can work with the data within it as you would a standard array.

You can write variables to a file with file_put_contents().  If the file pointed to does not exist it will be created.  By adding FILE_APPEND this will append data to the created file, if not the […]

Multidimensional delays are when you use Arrays as values for Arrays.

The foreach() function can turn Named Keys into variables just like it does array values.

The foreach() function allows you to loop though an array to process the values as variables.

Naming Keys in Arrays makes it easier to verify you are interacting with the appropriate data in an array.

Arrays allow for a variable to have multiple values.  This gives you the ability to create lists of names, and be able to sort them easily.  Also it allows you to have values from a […]

Do While Loops perform one iteration before a condition is tested.

While loops allow you to repeat code while a condition remains true.

For loops are ways to repeat specific code based on whether a condition continues to be true.

Logical Operators allow you to use AND or OR in comparisons for Loops and If Statements.

Comparison Operators allow you to compare variable values against values to determine whether an event should trigger.  You use Comparison Operators in Loops and If Statements.

switch Statements allow you to allow events to happen based on specific values for variables.

elseif statements allow you to check to see if any of a number of conditions are true before failing out to the else in an if statement.