PHP - Webmaster Blog

PHP Language is a server-side scripting language, which means you need to upload your PHP files to your server before any execution.

Before Learning PHP:

Before learning some PHP, you should have a basic idea of the following language:

• HTML/XHTML
• JavaScript

If you need some knowledage for HTML/XHTML and JavaScript, check out home page for related tutorials.

What is PHP?

PHP means PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, it is a server-side scripting language, just like Microsoft’s ASP, you need to upload your PHP scripts before execute them.PHP supports many kinds of databases (MySQL, Generic ODBC, PostgreSQL, Solid, Sybase, Oracle, Informix, etc.)PHP is a very open source software, whenever need help, you can check the official website PHP.net, the last thing, PHP is a free software for download and use.

What is a PHP File?

• PHP files allow text, Html scripts and PHP scripts
• PHP files can be executed and returned to browser plain HTML
• PHP files have extension of “php”, “phtml” or “.php3″

What is MySQL?

• MySQL is a database server
• MySQL is perfect for tiny, small and large web applications
• MySQL supports for standard SQL
• MySQL supports for lots of platforms
• MySQL is totally free to download and use, you can download Mysql from the official website: www.mysql.com

PHP + MySQL

• PHP plus MySQL supports many platform (you can use serve on a Unix platform and Windows)

Why Choose PHP?

• PHP supports many platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows, etc.)
• PHP is compatible with most servers nowadays (IIS, Apache, etc.)
• PHP is totally free to download from official PHP website: www.php.net
• PHP is very easy to learn and runs efficiently on php server side

Where to Start Learning PHP?

To get access to PHP supported web server, you can:

• find a web hosting plan with MySQL and PHP supported
• Install IIS ( or Apache ) on your own server, install MySQL and PHP

PHP is a very powerful tool for developing dynamic and interactive web pages.It is widely-used in many website, and much efficient alternative to Microsoft’s ASP among many other competitors.And last thing, PHP is totally free.

In this PHP tutorial, we are much pleased to let you know about PHP, and how to run excute PHP scripts on your PHP server.

PHP References:

At infonetguide you can find all the references of PHP functions:

• Array functions
• Calendar functions
• Date functions
• Directory functions
• Error functions
• Filesystem functions
• Filter functions
• FTP functions
• HTTP functions
• LibXML functions
• Mail functions
• Math functions
• Misc functions
• MySQL functions
• SimpleXML functions
• String functions
• XML Parser functions
• Zip functions

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I write this post, because I need a php code list to finish my php codes, you can read them as follows:

PHP Basic:

• PHP HOME
• PHP Intro
• PHP Install
• PHP Syntax
• PHP Variables
• PHP String
• PHP Operators
• PHP If…Else
• PHP Switch
• PHP Arrays
• PHP While Loops
• PHP For Loops
• PHP Functions
• PHP Forms
• PHP $_GET
• PHP $_POST

PHP Advanced:

• PHP Date
• PHP Include
• PHP File
• PHP File Upload
• PHP Cookies
• PHP Sessions
• PHP E-mail
• PHP Secure E-mail
• PHP Error
• PHP Exception
• PHP Filter

PHP Database:

• MySQL Introduction
• MySQL Connect
• MySQL Create
• MySQL Insert
• MySQL Select
• MySQL Where
• MySQL Order By
• MySQL Update
• MySQL Delete
• PHP ODBC

PHP XML:

• XML Expat Parser
• XML DOM
• XML SimpleXML

PHP and AJAX:

• AJAX Intro
• AJAX PHP
• AJAX Database
• AJAX XML
• AJAX Live Search
• AJAX RSS Reader
• AJAX Poll

PHP Reference:

• PHP Array
• PHP Calendar
• PHP Date
• PHP Directory
• PHP Error
• PHP Filesystem
• PHP Filter
• PHP FTP
• PHP HTTP
• PHP Libxml
• PHP Mail
• PHP Math
• PHP Misc
• PHP MySQL
• PHP SimpleXML
• PHP String
• PHP XML
• PHP Zip

PHP Quiz:

• PHP Quiz
• PHP Certificate

If you want to add related posts to a single post, you can use the following codes:

<?php

//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
echo ‘Related Posts’;
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
$args=array(
‘tag__in’ => array($first_tag),
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
’showposts’=>5,
‘caller_get_posts’=>1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

<p><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>

<?php

endwhile;
}
}
?>
Just insert the code to your wordpress theme single.php,then you will get the related posts displayed within every single post.

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