Archive for the ‘Sample Code’ 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

More into the syntax of PHP

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As you might have seen, all of the PHP statement ends with �;� which would be somewhat similar to Perl. The valid HTML code that was handed back to the server was : Who are You? My name is MacGyver. More in the coming posts when we dig deeper as we widen our ...

PHP Basics

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Now that you have installed the necessary web server software and tested that it works (which is included in the manual) we can now get to know the basics of PHP. For our guide we will be using HTTP combined with PHP, this allows PHP code to be embedded ...

Array Chunk Function

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The array_chunk() function on the on the other hand as the name implies, divides an array into chunks or several tables from the source table. The syntax goes something like array_chunk(array,size,preserve_key), wherein the array is the table that would be divided, the size is the number of elements which the ...

Arrays : Changing cases

Friday, November 6th, 2009

This form of array declaration allows one to change the case from uppercase to lowercase and vice versa. The syntax goes as follows: array_change_key_case(array,case) The array part, specifies which table or array to use and is a required field which is not the case with the key which is automatically assigned a ...