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PHP If-Else Conditionals Tutorial

Mark Lassoff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Many times programs need to make a decision based on conditions that have occurred during execution. For example, which screen to display, whether or not to allow a user to continue to play a game after their character has been killed, and even determining which button has been pushed on a joystick are all determined by conditionals.

In this video tutorial, Mark will show you how to use both simple PHP if else and more complex conditional statements in the PHP programming language.

PHP Variables Tutorial

Mark Lassoff — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:09:33 +0000

In this PHP Variables Tutorial, Mark will show you how to use variables in the PHP programming language. You will learn how to declare and initialize PHP variables, the PHP variable operators and how to ouput variable values to the browser window.


    $age = 37;                      //Numeric Variable
    $name = "Mark Lassoff";         //String Variable
 
    //echo("My age is " . $age);
    print($name ."'s age is " . $age);
 
    $operand1 = 48;
    $operand2 = 201.003;
 
    $sum = $operand1 + $operand2;
    $result = $operand1 * $operand2;
 
    print("
The sum is: " . $sum);
    print("
The result of the multiplication is: " . $result);
 
    $result = $operand1 - $operand2;
    printf("
The result of subtraction is: " . $result);
 
    $result = $operand1 / $operand2;
    printf("
The result of division is: ". $result);
 
    $operand1++;        //Add One to $operand1
    $operand1--;        //Subtract One from $operand1
 
    print("
");
    print(2189.34543%67.23432);
 
?>

PHP Tutorial: Hello World

Mark Lassoff — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:00:04 +0000

PHP is a commonly used, server side programming language, most often used to code web applications. WordPress, Joomla, and many other common web applications are written in PHP. With PHP knowledge you can customize or create just about any kind of web site or web application. In this PHP tutorial, Mark will show you how to set up a PHP testing server and how to output information to the browser window using PHP.

This is a beginners PHP Tutorial and can easily be completed even if you have no previous programming experience. In the tutorial Mark will show you how to create your first PHP script that outputs text content to the web browser.


    
        First PHP Script
    
    
 
    echo("Hello World from LearnToProgram.tv
");
    echo("This content was generated by PHP.");
?>