Videos tagged with Diving into PHP

As some of you might know, I've been running a weekly video series on the ThemeForest Blog that teaches new developers exactly how to work with PHP. Once or twice a week, I release a new "episode" that builds upon the previous days. To expand our viewership, I've decided to release "Day 13" here. Be sure to subscribe to In the Woods to stay up to date on each new release. Created by Jeffrey Way.

We’ll take a short break from working with MySQL in order to analyze how to work with the file system. Today, you’ll learn how to use the “file” function, as well as “fopen”, “fgets”, and “fputs”. Created by Jeffrey.

Continuing on from Day 10, we’ll review SQL insert statements that will allow us to add new rows to our MySql database with PHP. Additionally, we’ll take a look at using foreach statements to loop through an array. Created by Jeffrey.

I promised you last week that we’d begin working with databases in Day 10. I’ll show you how easy it is to get up and running with MySql. We’ll also review the correct way to retrieve information from our new database. Created by Jeffrey.

Starting with day 9, I’m going to begin teaching you some practical uses of PHP. Today, I’ll show you how to detect whether or not a user has visited your site previously. This operation can then be used to add a “welcome” box to your site - that typically encourages the user to sign up, via the RSS feed. It’s easier than you’d think! Created by Jeffrey.

Not many people are familiar with “heredocs”. Heredocs allow you to disregard escaping single quotes when typing out long strings. I’ll show you how and when to use them today! Created by Jeffrey.

I’m going to show you how to use regular expressions with PHP. Over the course of about ten minutes, we’ll be reviewing the “preg_match()” and “preg_replace()” functions to validate a form. Created by Jeffrey.

Using the “includes” feature allows you to easily import sections of your website without having to copy and paste from page to page. The advantage of this is that, when you need to make a correction, you only to edit one file. Created by Jeffrey.

We have much to cover today! We’ll be reviewing arrays, refactoring, functions, and includes over the course of about twenty-two minutes. If the video moves too fast, feel free to watch it two times - or three times - and/or ask questions via the comments. Created by Jeffrey.

Continuing on from yesterday, we’re going to take a look at how to pass multiple values from page to page. We’ll then use the “print_r” function and the “foreach” statement to display the information accordingly. Created by Jeffrey.