Daily Archives: December 31, 2010

PHP Easy file uploading vs. ASP file uploading

I have to admit, uploading a file in PHP is so much easier than doing the same thing in ASP. With ASP, I used a 3rd-party component (DLL) SA-FileUpload to do my file uploads. With PHP, file upload capability is … Continue reading

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PHP Variable Variables — what?

This is something that ASP does not have. — Variable Variables. It takes the content of a variable and use it as variable names. $a = ‘foo’; $$a = ‘bar’; the above statement is equivalent to: $foo = ‘bar’; Two … Continue reading

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PHP Built-In Variables – PHP_SELF

The book I’m using to learn PHP is old… © 2001. It’s using commands from PHP 4.0.3. Thus, I’m finding some of the commands and examples in the book do not work, because the command format has changed or some … Continue reading

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Learning PHP vs. ASP … First impressions

Learning PHP is very *easy* especially if you already know ASP. ASP and PHP are not that very different from each other… (unlike .NET). You just have to wrap your head around a new way of thinking, and maybe learn … Continue reading

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