Why learn OOP in PHP – another take.

September 7, 2007

Why learn OOP in PHP – another take. For people new to OOP and are comfortable with ‘classic’ procedural php, you may be wondering why should you even bother to learn object oriented concepts … why go through the trouble? The PHP world: PHP is moving in an OOP direction. For example, many important PHP…

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Object Oriented PHP Tutorial Updated – Steps 18 – 22

September 6, 2007

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

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Turning on display_errors in WAMP – Video Tutorial

August 30, 2007

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…

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Object Oriented PHP Tutorial Updated

August 26, 2007

Hi, I’ve update my beginners tutorial on object oriented PHP adding steps 12-17. I cover two new basic OO concepts in these steps: Constructors. Access modifiers. Again, this is a code intensive article where I expect you to follow along with your PHP editors. More to come. Thanks, Stefan Mischook www.killerphp.com

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Object Oriented PHP Tutorial Released

August 22, 2007

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…

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Why PHP is the choice language – a business owners perspective.

August 10, 2007
Posted in Editorial

Preamble I have written this article to speak to business owners and other non-nerd types. So you will not see me go into nerd-details regarding my arguments. Instead, I concentrate on the business arguments and only touch on the technological issues underlying them … when it makes sense to mention the nerd stuff. Introduction I’ve…

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PHP Classes and Objects video tutorial

August 3, 2007

Hi, I’ve released a new video that basically covers the content covered in the PDF: Classes and Objects. – … It is the last bit object oriented PHP theory before we jump in and start writing actual PHP code. Video: PHP classes and objects Thanks, Stefan Mischook

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Classes and Objects in PHP

August 1, 2007

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….

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Why Learn Object Oriented PHP – the PDF

July 28, 2007

I’ve just released a PDF that outlines the reasons for learning object oriented (OO) PHP. PDF: why learn object oriented PHP This document is meant to support my video on the same topic: Video: why learn object oriented PHP. Yes, this is basic stuff. But not everybody is a nerd-wizard. – I hope you guys…

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Object Oriented PHP Videos are now out!

July 27, 2007

Hi, I’ve finally found the time to create a couple of videos on object oriented PHP! The following videos are based on an article I wrote for Web Designer Magazine that taught OOP in PHP to total beginners. OBJECT ORIENTED PHP VIDEOS With the release of php5 (in 2004,) php programmers finally had the power…

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