scriptygoddess

1 | Amy

June 4th, 2002 at 11:02 am

There's a particular tack for explaining PHP that I've never seen taken, and someone really should: PHP for the non-programmer.

I would have done some very, very grisly acts to have gotten hold of such a beast about a year ago.

Some things to cover: what a function is. How it works. What the stuff inside the ( and ) is for, and how it's used.

What a "concatenation operator" is, and how to use it properly.

Common errors. First things to check for when you get a parse error.

How to read the "this is how this command is set up" demonstration syntax on places like PHP.net.

Lastly — an overview of common bits seen in PHP: print, echo, for…each, break, continue, do…while, file, count, explode, implode, substr, strstr, substr_replace, array, etc.

…and if this gives you an idea for another article, go right ahead!