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40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources

May 28, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Coding, Featured No Comments

My newest post on Net.Tuts+ was published yesterday: 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources

It is a roundup of articles, tutorials and tools of interest to PHP coders, on topics such as security, OOP, frameworks, and WordPress.

PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the internet today, and one of the easiest to get into. Whether you’re a PHP newbie, or an experienced code-slinger, there is always something new to discover. A function you’re unfamiliar with a killer timesaving tool, a technique that you forgot about…

Head over to Net.Tuts+ to read the full article.

Learn Object Oriented PHP

Jan 22, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Coding 4 Comments

PHP is the web programming language of choice (or scripting language, if you insist…) for many people, and my favorite as well. One thing I find interesting is when it’s taught, by many books and websites, they tend to not spend much time on Object-Oriented PHP. It’s deemed to be for “advanced” coders and left out.

As a result, I didn’t know much about how to work with classes and the like until more recently than was good. And I am still not quite comfortable with coding that way. It’s going to take some time to get used to.

The Object Oriented approach to writing in PHP isn’t too hard to grasp theory-wise, though there are some odd things about it, and it takes a bit of practice to get the hang of. If you haven’t brushed-up on it yet, now’s a good time.

Here are a few good tutorials: