Yes, the tutorial is still coming. It's big. It's in progress. I read this recently and was intrigued. Don't know if anyone else would care or not ... The author, nikic, does a great job summarizing the difficulties and potential benefits of type hinting, as well as giving a good explanation as to why PHP's implementation is incomplete. Personally, I look forward to being able to type-hint any type. It could save me a lot of code validating args, and I could ...
Updated 12-01-2012 at 04:48 AM by traq
I wanted to take a few moments to talk about some of "the basics" that are all-to-often glossed over... A Matter of Style In general, I find that most PHP programmers fall into one of three main programming styles: procedural: a simple ordered set of instructions, nested if's/ else's, etc.functional: functions are little code containers that you can call on when needed. You [usually] give them arguments, they [usually] return values to you.object-oriented: ...
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Updated 12-17-2012 at 03:49 AM by traq
Last week, I wrote about taking a "PHP-first" approach to programming - program first, output last. But what should go first in your program? M-V-C You may have heard about something called "MVC" (Model-View-Controller). If not, here's your crash course: Model Your Model is all of the information needed/used by your program. [Hopefully], the Model is well-organized. Think of it in terms of note-taking: notes are easier to ...
Many PHP tutorials begin with an introduction to the "basics" of the language: the <?php ?> tags, and usually the echo construct. For example, something like this: PHP Code: <html> <head> <title>My First PHP Page</title> </head> <body> <?php echo "Hello World!"; ?> </body> </html> Before I blast this, I want to ...
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<html> <head> <title>My First PHP Page</title> </head> <body> <?php echo "Hello World!"; ?> </body> </html>
Updated 11-03-2012 at 01:27 AM by traq
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