SPCOxion (2013-07-01 00:53:34)

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'Ello. In case you didn't catch the title, I'm learning web programming (PHP at the moment), and I would like some tips. For example, you could suggest sites for me to learn from, or teach me uncommonly used/unpopular (but useful) functions.

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SPCOxion (2013-07-01 03:49:03)

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1. W3Schools? Hell no.
2. Tyzag is a bit confusing to me, and I personally think of it more as a dictionary or encyclopedia rather than a class-like thingamajig, like TheNewBoston or Codecademy.

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klubadmin (2013-07-02 02:54:14)

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One very handy, yet not necessarily obvious code:



This snippet will get a variable from the url. For example, using that code on this imaginary page:

http://website.com/page.php?text=Hi

Will return the string "Hi".

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SPCOxion (2013-07-06 04:10:43)

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I have a question...

What is the use of $this->?

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klubadmin (2013-07-07 02:23:56)

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I believe it is object notation, as opposed to the more common array notation: $row['something']

Ex: $row->something

Though I'm not 100% sure that's completely correct.

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(Capt.)Orb (2013-07-14 00:10:28)

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I think $this is used to basically replace the variable before.

Example
$username=htmlentities($this);

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