Beginners PHP Articles:

Hi, I’ve update my beginners tutorial on object oriented PHP adding steps 18-22. Again, this is a code intensive article where I expect you to follow along with your PHP editors. PS: if you happen across any errors/typos, please let me know. More to come. Thanks, Stefan Mischook www.killerphp.com

Hi, Within a WAMP installation, I ran into a little issue today when trying to change php.ini’s ‘display_errors’ property. By default WAMP installs with ‘display_errors’ to ‘Off’: display_errors = Off … This is a pain-in-the-ass setting when trying to write new PHP code because errors don’t get displayed in the browser window; you have to…

Hi, I’ve just released a written tutorial on object oriented PHP, that targets people totally new to OO PHP. Beginners Object Oriented PHP Based on an article I wrote for a web design magazine; the tutorial is presented as a series of simple steps where I walk the reader through the process of building objects…

Hi, I’ve written up a short (2 pages,) document that goes over some of the very basics of object oriented programming – it should take you all of 5 minutes to read. I wrote this as the preamble to my next video on object oriented PHP where we will actually create living breathing PHP objects….

A while back I wrote an article for beginners on database driven websites: ‘Database driven websites: what are they and how are they built?’ The article explains the basic concepts behind dynamic websites, with the idea of making learning PHP that much easier. If you’re new to the game (of PHP,) I would strongly suggest…

I’ve read 20+ books on PHP and have watched many videos. One thing that I found consistent about all of them was how they were not ‘friendly’ to non-nerd types. Why? Probably because (most of the time,) only hardcore code-monkeys seem to be writing these books. That means either one of two things: They forget…

Hi, It has been a while since my last post, my apologies. But there has been a good reason for this and this reason will be revealed soon. Sorry I can’t give more information, but I have to keep this under wraps until we go public. Thanks, Stefan

I have a new article appearing in issue 125 of Web Designer Magazine – the November issue. Article title: Learn Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP Sample from the article: With the release of php5, php programmers finally had the power to code with the ‘big boys’. Like Java and C#, php finally has a…

I’ve just posted a quick intro FAQ to AJAX at killersites.com and I thought that some PHP’ers might find it useful as well. Stefan Mischook So what is this Ajax thing I keep hearing about? Ajax is actually an acronym which stands for Asynchronous Javascript and Xml. The term Ajax is used to indicate the…

A quick podcast where I explain the basics behind what database driven websites are. This podcast targets total beginners. Database Driven Websites Explained.