Archive for the ‘Basic Programming’ Category

Cookies – not the one you dunk in milk

Friday, December 10th, 2010

If you have been browsing the web foir quite sometime, then you might have come across cookies which allows your browser to remember passwords and other information that may have anything to do with your actions on a particular website. These can be preferences that would allow the browser or ...

PHP – Single vs. Double Quotes (Part 1)

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

PHP may be an easy language to use and learn but there are simple steps most budding programmers forget when it comes to coding in the scripting language of choice for web pages. The quotes, which come in single and double forms. They may seem inter-changeable but they have two ...

PHP Programming.

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

PHP is free! (Most Web hosts provide PHP in even their most basic plans). PHP or the PHP Hypertext Pre-processor is a server-side programming language that gives Web developers it has the ability to build virtually any type of application, from simple contact forms to shopping carts, dynamic job sites, ...

Tips in safe Mode

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Apache module is a PHP installed Apache configuration files (.httpd) and .htaccess files help its settings to be changed. It also enable or disable PHP safe mode for the entire web server you can use the php.ini file and also allows the file to modify many aspects of PHP configuration.

Array_diff_uassoc Function

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Next in line is array_diff_uassoc() function which compares two or more arrays while checking for differences before comparing the keys with a user-defined location. It then returns an array withthe keys and values from the first array(to which all the values were comapred against) it the function allows it. Syntax ...

Array_diff Function

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

The first function, array_diff() is used for comparing several tables or arrays which gives an array with the keys and values from the first array if the value is not available in the other arrays. Syntax is as follows : array_diff(array1,array2,array3......), where array 1 is the table to which all ...

Array Count Values

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

The array_count_values() function returns an array which contains the keys of the original array's value and the value is the number of occurences. A sample of it's use is shown below: Which would give us an output of : Array ( [Mouse]=> 1 [Cat]=> 2 [Dog]=> 1 ) The next functions are ...

More Programming Basics

Monday, May 10th, 2010

As with all programming languages PHP has different variable types such as numeric, character, string and Boolean types. Boolean variables in PHP always return either true or false, integers are whole numbers, floating points are decimal or scientifically notated and strings are a chain of characters. Sounds familiar, well they ...

PHP and other Programming Languages

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

The major notable difference with PHP against other languages with regards to variables is that PHP is more "intelligent". In C for example, variables have to be explicitly defined as either numeric or alpha-numeric and can only be used to store that defined specific form of data. PHP like all ...

Embedding Comments

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Now, to make you a better programmer we all know the value of comments. This allows you to understand the code that you have written defining and given meaning to operations as you build them up. You start with the terminators used by PHP and end with them as well. ...