Blue Sun Studio, Inc

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen

If you think back to last week’s introductory post about loops in PHP, you’ll remember I gave you some pseudo-code that described a program to run a game of hangman. And then I left …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen

Have you ever played hangman? I used to, all the time. Especially when I was bored, and didn’t have a book to read or anything else to do. This was before the 24/7 …

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about functions and variables in your PHP code. But that’s not nearly all that there is to PHP. After all, there’s more to functions than just passing variables around (we have to do something to these variables, …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen
Last week we talked about what functions are in PHP, and I promised that this week I would explain more about what goes into a function and why on …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen

Last week I introduced you to the elePHPant, and showed you how to differentiate the PHP in your code from everything else. But that doesn’t actually tell you what’s happening between …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen
Imagine this scenario: you’ve decided you want a website, and you set out to code it completely from scratch (It certainly is possible–I’ve done it in …

Photo courtesy of Allison Day
If you look at the HTML code of any modern website, you’re likely to see a lot of <div> elements. A whole lot of <div> elements. A lot of coders use <div> elements …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen
For the last couple weeks we’ve been going through an introduction to how websites work by diving in head first (no pun intended) and looking at working code. While this does help you understand …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen
Last week, you got the general overview of the head section of your website, but we didn’t really discuss what goes on inside, in the …

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen
Before we can get to the body of your website – the stuff you actually see – we need to look at the head.

“But why,” you ask, “do we give a darn about the …