Errors are an integral part of every computer language—although one that, most of the time, programmers would rather not have to deal with! PHP has some excellent facilities for dealing with errors that provide an excellent level of fine-grained control… (READ MORE)
Control structures allow you to control the flow of your script—after all, if all a script could do was run from start to finish, without any control over which portions of the script are run and how many times, writing… (READ MORE)
As their name subtly suggests, operators are the catalysts of operations. There are many types of operators in PHP, those commonly used are: • Assignment Operators for assigning data to variables • Arithmetic Operators for performing basic math functions •… (READ MORE)
Conversely to variables, constants are meant for defining immutable values. Constants can be accessed for any scope within a script; however, they can only contain scalar values. Constant names, like variables, are case-sensitive; they also follow the same naming requirements,… (READ MORE)
Variables are temporary storage containers. In PHP, a variable can contain any type of data, such as, for example, strings, integers, floating-point numbers, objects and arrays. PHP is loosely typed, meaning that it will implicitly change the type of a… (READ MORE)
PHP supports many different data types, but they are generally divided in two categories: scalar and composite. A scalar value contains only one value at a time. PHP supports four scalar types: boolean A value that can only either be… (READ MORE)
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Taken directly from PHP’s home, PHP.net, “PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Syntax PHP’s syntax is derived from many languages—predominantly the C language, but Perl has also had a lot of influence on its… (READ MORE)