This second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming: A practical guide to developing large-scale Web sites and applications with PHP 5 by George Schlossnagle is reprinted with permission of Sams ...

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The PHP team is considering adding a partial implementation of generics to the language, has confirmed that a pipe operator ...

How to Inject Attributes Into Code Using PHP. HTML is a markup language rather than a programming language. You can specify how you want text to appear on a Web page with HTML, but you can't make ...

Even previous programming experience may not help much, because coding for a desktop or for the Web are two very different paradigms. Therefore, pretty often, when people cut and paste PHP code, ...

After some more HTML code, there is a section that checks Web servers to see if they're up. It's important to know that "is_up" is not a built-in PHP function, rather it's something I wrote to make ...

PHP official code base migrated to GitHub As a precaution following this incident, PHP maintainers have decided to migrate the official PHP source code repository to GitHub.

Database support PHP offers database support in a couple of ways. First, it provides native support for a number of databases. Below, I've listed some of the more popular ones and provided links ...

Fortunately, the malicious code was spotted quickly thanks to good code review practices and only impacted the development branch of PHP 8.1 which is not expected to be released until November and ...