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PHP - Object References Vs. Object Copies (Pass by reference or pass by copy)

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

An important concept in programming is pointers. Even though we don’t directly use them in most modern languages the way we used to (think C/C++) they still come back to haunt us. In many modern languages they are referred to as references. References aren’t quite pointers, but they do resemble them enough to illustrate the […]

Sending email without all the hassle! Use the pickup directory.

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Ok, I just learned something new the other day. I have been using and administering IIS for years with or without the SMTP service running, but I never knew that you could send emails simply by placing them in the pickup directory. Yes, just copy a text file into the c:\inetpub\mailroot\pickup folder and […]

PHP Tutorial - Lesson 13 Looping, looping, looping, looping, looping, looping, looping, looping…

Friday, February 17th, 2006

There are 4 main concepts that you have to understand inside and out to be a good programmer.

Variables
Arrays
Choices (if statements)
Looping

We have talked about variables (those named containers where we can store information) and we have talked about choices. We have also touched on arrays (remember $_GET and $_POST?). Remember arrays are variables that […]

PHP Tutorial - Lesson 12 Hello!? Are you there?! - Using the SELECT statement

Monday, February 13th, 2006

This is both the easiest and most difficult of the four SQL statements. The SELECT statement.
We have covered putting data in the database (INSERT), removing data (DELETE), and changing data that already exists (UPDATE). Aside from the INSERT statement, which simply jams data into a table, you append a WHERE clause onto your […]

PHP Tutorial - Lesson 11 Just make it go away! - Using the DELETE statement

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

The next of the big four SQL statements that you need to master on this long and bumpy road is the DELETE statement. At some point, a customer will leave, or an item will permanently go out of stock or some other reason will pop up where you will need to remove data that […]


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