Archive for the 'PHP Videos' Category

PHP Video: Processing Forms with PHP - part 2

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Part two of my beginners video tutorials on how to use PHP to process HTML forms.
Video: PHP and forms video tutorial
Having covered the basics of forms in the first video, I now jump into the actual PHP code and introduce (for the first time) a built-in PHP construct called ‘Super Globals’.
We learn that Super Globals [...]

PHP Video: Processing Forms with PHP - part 1

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

In this video, I review a few key aspects about forms that relate directly to form processing with PHP.
… I cover these three attributes:

The ‘action’ attribute
The ‘method’ attribute
The ‘name’ attribute

In part 2, we will get into practical examples.
PS: these videos are still targeting web designers … so if you are a coder, keep your [...]

PHP Video - Associative Arrays

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Just released a new video on PHP associative arrays.
Associative arrays are one of the two types of arrays found in PHP and is (in my opinion) one of the most important aspects of the php programming language.
PHP associative arrays are used everywhere and are the underlying mechanism to so many important things in PHP … [...]

PHP Video - Indexed Arrays

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I just released a new video on the super important indexed array.
PHP indexed arrays are one of the two types of arrays that you’ll find in PHP.
> PHP indexed array video tutorial

PHP Video - PHP variables part 2

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

In this video we expand on our exploration of PHP variables. We look at things like:

Variable expansion
String Concatenation

PHP variables part 2
Once you’ve finished this video, we will be looking at PHP arrays … the key to processing HTML forms.

PHP Video - PHP includes

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

These two videos introduce you to one of the most important tools in PHP - PHP ‘includes’.
In a nutshell: PHP ‘includes’ allow you to include/insert code from other pages/documents into your PHP pages.
Web designers familiar with CSS can see this as being like linking to external CSS files. Except with PHP includes, you can insert:

HTML/XHTML
CSS
PHP [...]

PHP Video - configuring WAMP

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Yet another WAMP video tutorial. This one continues the installation process and shows you the WAMP control panel.
WAMP control panel video tutorial
Questions, comments?
Thanks,
Stefan

PHP Video - installing WAMP

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

I’ve released a new video on installing WAMP on a PC.
WAMP install video tutorial
Any comments?
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook

PHP Video Variables Part 1

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

I’ve released a new video on PHP variables.
PHP variables
Should you have any questions or comments, please feel free to ask here.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook