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Category Archives: PHP
Introducing PHP course now live on lynda.com
I’m delighted to announce that my Introducing PHP video course is now part of the lynda.com subscription library. It was originally recorded for video2brain, which was aquired by lynda.com earlier this year. Since the aquisition, video2brain publishes courses only in … Continue reading
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lynda.com goes multilingual
Over the past couple of years, I’ve recorded several video training courses for video2brain, an Austrian company that I often referred to as the European equivalent of lynda.com. It turns out that my description was prophetic. If you visit the … Continue reading
Posted in Dreamweaver, PHP, Video
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Source files for PHP Solutions
Several people have written asking what has happened to the friends of ED website because they can’t find the source files for PHP Solutions, 2nd Edition. The site was merged with that of its parent company, Apress, a long time … Continue reading
Posted in Books, MySQL, PHP
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Learn PHP basics by video
My new video course, Introducing PHP, is now available from video2brain. It’s aimed at complete beginners, and assumes no prior knowledge of PHP or any other programming language. However, the course should also be useful as a refresher for anyone … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, Video
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New video PHP course for complete beginners
I’m delighted to announce that my new video course, Introducing PHP, has just been published by video2brain. The course contains nearly 5 hours of video instruction, starting with the installation of a PHP testing environment on your local computer, with … Continue reading
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New tutorial: send a link to a friend
I’ve just published a new tutorial for a script that sends a link to a friend. It’s a very simple script, but—as long as you have a basic knowledge of PHP—you should be able to adapt it to your own … Continue reading
Posted in Books, PHP
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Great training resource for web designers and digital artists
I’m a great fan of learning from books—that’s why I written so many. But there are times when a book just won’t do. Seeing and hearing an expert show you how to do something often has much more impact. Several … Continue reading
Posted in AJAX/JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Video
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Using num_rows with a MySQLi prepared statement
While refactoring some code that I had written about six years ago, I was puzzled by the MySQLi num_rows property constantly returning 0, even though I knew there were matching records in the database. It turns out that the problem … Continue reading
Posted in MySQL, PHP
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What’s the difference between parameters and arguments?
When writing books aimed at beginners, there’s a difficult line to tread between giving too much and too little information. Too much information overloads the mind, running the risk of losing the reader’s enthusiasm for the subject. Too little information … Continue reading
Posted in Books, PHP
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Accessing PHP objects’ methods and properties
A couple of participants in Boston PHP‘s self-study PHP Percolate, Jim Wright and Jared Stenquist, are confused about the use of the -> operator, which is introduced on page 44 of PHP Solutions, 2nd Edition. Since others might be in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, PHP
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