Beginners PHP Articles:

Hi, Learning to program can be a frustrating process for a lot of people; especially for designer types wanting to learn a little PHP. The following tips should help a lot of you along the way to becoming a PHP nerd. My PHP learning tips: 1. Be patient: Patience is a virtue, especially when learning…

Once and a while, I get a question from a student about PHP and programming that I use in a blog post … here we go again: … you mentioned that you used to use mostly Java but have switched to mostly PHP. Would you recommend learning PHP as a primary method of creating dynamic…

Recently we had to make an emergency move from our old servers (where we had been for 5-6 years) to our own dedicated server because of technical difficulties in the heads of the nerd’s who managed the servers killersites.com had been sitting on. I will spare you the details of my server migration ordeal for…

In my last post I wrote about how Ruby’s early problems around 2006-2007: – incomplete libraries – difficult web server integration .. had played a role slowing its adoption. The main thrust of the piece was to point out that despite the explosion of interest, Ruby and Rails had failed to make much of a…

Hi, In this HD video (running time: 4:06), I answer a question put to me recently: Should you always use MySQL as your database when working with PHP? Yes, this is a beginners question, I know. Nonetheless, it is a legitimate question that I think is worthy of comment. In answering this question though, I…

OK, I just tricked you! This article is not going to teach you how to build a content management system with PHP from scratch. Why not? … Because building a content management system from scratch is (probably) a really dumb idea!! Now that I come to think about it, building any of the most commonly…

Hi, I’ve finally released my first video on using SQL statements in PHP pages. This is the next step after connecting to a MySQL database. I hope you find the videos useful. Stefan Mischook www.killerphp.com

Many of my articles and videos are based on questions that I see popping up in the php forums or in emails sent to me personally. Recently I was asked by someone how they could call a function found in one class, in another. This may seem like basic stuff to those of us who…

I recently had this question put to me by a web designer who was considering the idea of using PHP pages in her websites: “Why build all your pages in PHP … Why not use standard .html pages?” She then expanded the question to: “What I mean is…… what’s the benefit to building ALL sites…

Hi, I’ve managed to upload new video tutorials on SQL basics. At this point, I’ve covered the four big SQL statments: INSERT SELECT UPDATE DELETE You can view the videos here: Basic SQL Statements Video Tutorials. Now that we have that covered, my next videos will be on using PHP to connect to and work…