... of the use of
certain parts of the language, and a better understanding of why those parts of the
language are useful, when to use them, and when to avoid other solutions. Along the
way, there ... methods in the Java language are defined by their name and by the types of their
arguments (the objects that are passed in to the method) and their return values (the
object...
... dead” and then, from the other side, “PHP is for
hobbyists.” But all one has to look at is the ramp-up rate of downloads for the Zend
Framework, Magento, or Drupal to realize that the simplicity ... world.
In the last several years, many members of the PHP community have been debating
whether the language is enterprise ready: can it be trusted to handle the big projects
and we...
... ;
}
The first part of this statement ($i = 0) sets the initial value for the loop, and the part
after the semicolon is the portion of the statement that repeatedly tests to determine
whether the ... those of
the web server.
The code above merely sets the value of the cookie on the client’s machine. The other
side of the equation is how to retrieve that data when...
... effectively from one page to the next; the difference lies in the method of passing
the information. The $_POST array does not use the query string in the URL of the called
file as the transport method, ... through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they
find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end
of th...
... . round($avgGrades,2) ;
The sum of the provided grades is: 564
The average of these grades is: 80.57
This code also uses the round function to clean up the display of the average value and
keep ... code, you can reference the elements of an array by their keys, surrounded by
square brackets. If we want to take the value of the third element of the array the
contents being...
... previously. We then save his comments upon the
submission of the form and move on to the next survey question. Here is the code for
the first page (the <?php tags are included here because there are ... verify that the directory exists, we simply direct the browser to the first page
of the survey.
Now that we are on the first page of the survey (see Figure 7-2), the...
... the
footer) and the top of the next page (to show the header).
You can suppress the header or footer on a certain page by querying the
value
of the page number with the returned value from the ... the creation of both
the origin and the destination parts; notice the use of the FPDF write method, which
is another way to send text to the document (as opposed to u...
... the width and height of the chart to
the constructor. Then we simply start using the methods available to us to build the
chart.
We can control the look of the title of the chart by setting the ... will alternate as the table is constructed row by row.
The final call to the cell() method in this BuildTable() method draws the bottom of
the table and closes off the...
... output:
The Eagle has landed
The Eagle has landed
The Eagle has landed
The Eagle has landed
The Eagle has landed
The Eagle has landed
As you can see, this is the dreaded endless loop, which the goto ... time values from the server; to do this, simply provide
the string “now” as the first parameter. The following code does the same as the other
examples, except that...
... syntax, and not just a few times.
There is another level of inconsistency that can also trip you up: the position of the
parameters in string functions is the reverse of the parameters in array functions ... lead to confusion on the part of the developer, since the code has the potential
to change content. This can make code debugging and maintenance very difficult.
Some would...