Jul 23

Chapter 1 , from a C/C++ programmer’s point of view, introduced the PHP basic syntax, variables, constants, variables and constants scope, operator, operator precedence, variable functions, conditional statements, etc for Crash Course.
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Jul 20

For PHP, I can read it, modify it, but can not write it, after the World Cup, I intend to make a systematic study of PHP.
The reference book is “PHP and MySQL Web Development 4th Edition” written by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, this book is known as “PHP Bible” .

As usual, the book briefly introduced what is PHP, MySQL, Why use PHP / MySQL, as well as their strengths and so on, quickly scanned.

Followed by What is new in PHP5:

  • Better object-oriented support built around a completely new object model
  • Exceptions for scalable, maintainable error and exception handling
  • built-in SimpleXML for easy handling of XML data

And key features of PHP 5.3 (At the time of writing, PHP 5.2 was the current version) for example, namespaces (very important) and so on. Continue reading »