Reading the PHP Manual
Posted June 10, 2007 at 12:06pm in Programming
I wanted to brush up on some of my PHP skills before beCamp comes so my mind is refreshed. When I started I started at page one and thinking “Oh this stuff is simple, I should skip ahead a ‘few’ pages”. Right about then I found about four things I didn’t know. Like at the end of a PHP file you don’t have to close the PHP. By omitting the end tag it will prevent that white space between your main page and include files. Also for some reason I never noticed how you can cast variables, which could come in handy. I am in the language reference section now so I have a bit more to read still, but I’m surprised by the things I have picked up. There are things I forgot during my time off, but those are a few things I never knew.
