Archive for the PHP Category


Ensuring a Successful Social Media Strategy

Suppose you need help in formulating a successful social media strategy. What can you do to ensure that it gets a boost? Simply by applying a formula of thinking and doing, which is the summary of the advice, different successful entrepreneurs offer. An entrepreneur is defined by how the act versus how they think towards [...]

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Do you check your host’s PHP version?

In some cases, the last thing on a web hosting client’s mind is the PHP version that the server is currently running. After all, it’s just a bunch of mumbo jumbo; or is it? There are countless reasons why running the right version of PHP is imperative, and this article will help you get to [...]

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Server Header Responses: The List

Wether you’re a webdeveloper, a server administrator, a mere mortal surfing the web, or just a nerd trying to understand everything you come across, Server Header Responses are something that we all get to deal with, so do I (try to guess in which category I fall, and tell me your guess in the comments [...]

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PHP Notice: Undefined index

Have you ever gotten this error: Notice: Undefined index ‘fields of the table’ in ‘path of the PHP file you’re executing’ on line ‘the current linenumber’ ? I think you do, since most probably, Google or Bing or so have lead you to this post because you were searching for a solution for that very [...]

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PHP Lesson 3: Variables and Constants

Variables Variables are containers, they contain data. PHP is a loosely typed language, and thus the variable can contain any type of data, PHP will change the type of the variable implicitly, depending on the operation being performed on it. This is in strong contrast with strongly typed languages, such as Java, or C++, where [...]

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PHP Lesson 2: Data types

Today’s PHP lesson is about data types. Although PHP can work with many different data types, we divide them in two different categories: scalar data and composite data. Scalar data Scalar data can hold only one value at a time. PHP knows four different types of scalar data: Boolean: possible values are TRUE or FALSE [...]

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PHP Lesson 1: General Introduction

What is PHP? PHP is a scripting language, primarily intended to generate dynamical websites on a webserver. PHP is designed in 1994, by a senior software engineer at IBM, Rasmus Lerdorf, and the language was clearly inspired by Perl. The letters PHP used to mean Personal Homepage (or more complete: Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter, PHP/FI). [...]

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