Learning PHP – Part 3: Array basics

In part 2, you were introduced to the concept of variables and the string, integer and floating point types. In part 3 we’ll go through a more advanced type; the array.

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Learning PHP – Part 2: Variable Basics

After part 1, you should be familiar with the echo statement, which outputs a string to the browser:

echo 'This is a string';

(Note that from now on the opening (<?php) and closing (?>) PHP tags are omitted from examples, but should still be included in any source code you create)

On its own, it does not appear to be useful; after all we could have just written ‘This is a string’ in HTML for the same effect. The real power comes from using PHP variables.
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Learning PHP – Part 1: Introduction

So, you’ve got to grips with the basics of HTML and CSS, and now you want to actually make your web page do something? Well, PHP is a great way to do that. In this series of blog posts, I will introduce the PHP language and teach many useful techniques that are used in professional PHP development.

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