PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

2 Programming with PHP

Now that you have the fundamentals of the PHP scripting language down, it’s time to build on those basics and start truly programming. In this chapter you’ll begin creating more elaborate scripts while still learning some of the standard constructs, functions, and syntax of the language.

You’ll begin by creating an HTML form, then learning how you can use PHP to handle the submitted values. From there, the chapter covers conditionals and the remaining operators (Chapter 1, “Introduction to PHP,” presented the assignment, concatenation, and mathematical operators), arrays (another variable type), and one last language construct, loops.

Creating an HTML Form

Handling an HTML form with PHP is perhaps the most ...