On april 22th 2013 I delivered a free lecture about PHP. The lecture took place in HIT. You can download the slides I was using during the lecture. You can find (within the slides) the links we mention during the lecture. For a smooth start I recommend on starting with learning the basics www.phpbook.co.il.
On June 19th I will start to deliver a detailed professional course for cross platform web and mobile applications development. The course focuses on PHP for the server side and on JavaScript for the client side. The course includes 220 academic hours and it takes place in HIT. You can find detailed information about this [...]
PHP allows us to compare two arrays using the == and the === operators. The following code sample together with the video clip that follows explain the way each one of these two operators work. <?php //$a = ['a'=>'avodado','b'=>'bamba','c'=>'calco']; //$b = ['b'=>'bamba','a'=>'avodado','c'=>'calco']; $a = [123,455,323]; $b = [323,123,455]; if($a==$b) { echo “a and b equal”; [...]
The list construct in PHP allows us an easy assignment of values that belong to array into variabels in our code. The list construct is highly useful when developing code that works with a relational database. The following code sample shows a simple usage for the list construct. <?php $vec = [2=>"dave",1=>"ron",0=>"chen",3=>"ran"]; list($a,$b,$c) = $vec; [...]
The usort function allows us to specify the criteria by which the array will be sorted. The following code sample includes the definition of the class Student and the creation of an array that its values are references for objects instantiated from Student. Using the usort function we can sort the students according to their [...]
I have just completed to update the PHP Fundamentals course. The community version of this course is available for free at abelski.lifemichael.com. The new version of this course includes four new topics: Extensions, Performance, Closure and Configuration. The update for this course was introduced in order to assist those who learn towards the PHP Zend [...]
Closure is a function or a reference for a function together with a table that includes references for each one of the non local variables that exist within the outer scope of the closure. Unlike a plain function pointer the closure can use those non local variables that belong to its outer scope even when [...]
Zend Studio allows us to profile the code we write in PHP using an easy to use profiler it already includes. The following video clip shows how simple it is.
On December 11th I started to deliver a detailed professional course for cross platform web and mobile applications development. The course focuses on PHP for the server side and focus on JavaScript for the client side. The course includes 220 academic hours and it takes place in HIT. You can find detailed information about this [...]
On October 14th I lectures in HIT about PHP 5.4 new features. The focus was on traits. Overviewing the traits topic we looked over those cases in which traits can be useful. You can download the slides and find more training material that cover PHP 5.4 new features at www.abelski.org.
