The following are my responses to a series of simple PHP problems (attached in the Word File). I needed to review Doyle (2010) chapters 9 and 10 which cover form submission and session variables in order to complete these exercises. I also leaned on chapter 18 which goes into depth on regular expressions to assist with pattern recognition. ...
This week I rewrote one of the PHP tasks from earlier and created a new function to emulate the functionality of str_pad. The function I wrote accepts a text string parameter, length, a reverse parameter (for padding on left or right) and finally an optional symbol parameter to show where the padding is happening. In addition to this I have outlined what I am planning on developing for a Drupal module later in the semester. ...
PHP provides many different functions for manipulating strings. Some of the more common functions are provided here, however for a full listing of all the available string functions see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php. ...
This week I have been focusing on the first few chapters of Doyle (2010), specifically on PHP language basics, decisions and loops and strings. ...
Conditional statements (or decisions) and loops make up a good portion of programming code in general. I am familiar with these concepts though other languages, however I have never programmed them in PHP. This week I have been reviewing the first 5 chapters of Beginning PHP 5.3, which has been giving me a good solid introduction to PHP. ...
Variables in PHP are similar to define and use as with other programming languages. PHP uses loose typed variables, in other words they do not have to be defined specifically as a datatype upon initialization and can be changed to other data types using expressions. ...
This week I have been reading the first five chapters of Beginning PHP 5.3, Doyle (2010). Chapter 1 gave a good overview of PHP and it’s advantages. It drew comparisons to other programming languages, which I found interesting coming from a ColdFusion background. ...
This summer I have enrolled in a Dynamic Websites independent study for my graduate program. The course will focus mainly on developing PHP programming skills, something I have been lacking and interested in developing for some time. ...
I have been developing in ColdFusion for a while locally using the built in web server. Recently at work several of the projects I am involved with moved to an IIS production server. In order to test fully in my local environment I needed to install IIS and setup ColdFusion to use it as the server instead of its built in version. ...
Aptana, the company behind the popular programming Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Aptana Studio, announced today that they have been acquired by Appcelerator. Aptana has been the choice for many web development professionals for quite some time. ...