Web Design And Programming Pt 1 PHP
I have received tons of requests for tutorials. So, I’ve decided to create a massive tutorial that answers them all. In this tutorial I’ll focus on Web Design and Programming using all of the tools required. You should check out my Learn HTML Tutorial if you haven’t ahead of time.
I’ll continue this tutorial, with your input, until you can do pretty much anything in Web Design and Programming. Leave questions and comments below, because you are going to totally control everything I cover here.
I’ll start off with the basics of PHP and move on from there with tons of examples. Of course, all of the code used will follow the video.
All the Code from the Video
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo “Website Title”;?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// You can use short tags but it is not recommended doesn’t work in 6
# You can also comment code like this
/* Here is a
multiline comment
*/
echo “<p>Random Text</p>”;
print(“<p>You can print with braces</p>”);
print “<p>or without
them!</p>”;
$randVar = “Cats”;
echo “<p>”, $randVar, ” are funny</p>”;
printf(“<p>My name is %s I’m %d years old and
pi is equal to %.2f</p>”, ‘Derek’, 35, 3.14);
// Variables must start with a $ then letter or _ and then numbers
// Variables are case sensitive & don’t require definition before use
$boolEx1 = false; // 0 or false equals false
$boolEx2 = 1; // true equals any number but 0
$intEx1 = -234; // Max size normally 2^31 or 2^63
$floatEx1 = 3534.14;
echo “<p>Cost: $”,number_format($floatEx1,2), “</p>”;
// Arithmetic Operators: + – * / % ++ —
$firstName = “Doctor”;
$lastName = “Who”;
$wholeName = $firstName . ‘ ‘ . $lastName;
printf(“<p>His name is %s</p>”,$wholeName);
define(‘ACONSTANTVAR’, 2345);
echo “A constant is equal to ” . ACONSTANTVAR . “<br />”;
echo “How do quotes differ $wholeName<br />”;
echo ‘How do quotes differ $wholeName<br />’;
/* Escaped Characters in double quotes \” \’ \\ \n \r \t \$ */
$float2Int = (int) $floatEx1;
echo $float2Int, “<br />”;
/*
(array)
(bool)
(int64)
(object)
(float)
(double)
(string)
*/
$strNum = “28”;
echo $strNum * $floatEx1, “<br />”;
echo gettype($strNum), “<br />”;
echo is_string($strNum), “<br />”;
/* is_array() is_bool() is_float() is_integer() is_null() is_object()
?>
</body>
</html>
Just stumbled on your videos accidentaly…but have to admit that you’ve really got some great stuff going on in these videos..Thanks for the posts
Thanks 🙂 Yes I’ve been building a lot more traffic lately. This whole thing started as a little hobby. I’m glad so many people enjoy it.
i agree, just watched the first vid and now i’m gonna watch the rest 😀 i like it how you go through all of it very quickly instead of the boring slow talk like most of the tutorials 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to show your appreciation 😀 I definitely have a pretty original style. Some people like it while others don’t. I’m glad it works for you
First, I’d like to say your tutorials are great. They’ve helped so much. The format is great too. I was wondering if there was anyway I could download all of the video tutorials for a given section.
thanks,
Amal
Thank you 🙂 I think keepvid.com allows you to download any youtube video
Hi Sir Derek I didn’t find your regular expression article only a video to where this one suppose to be posted.
I just want to ask how to limit 9 numbers in regular expressions but I expect that it must contain at least a number so I come up with this but it doesn’t work that way. Thanks
if (preg_match(“%[0-9]{1,9}%”, $searchid)){
//execute codes
}
else {
//execute codes
}
Here is part 1 of my PHP Regular Expressions tutorial. All of the code is included and it should answer all of your questions
This a great stuff! What I like best is that videos are fast paced. Keep it up!
Suggestion – Include navigation aids on the page to allow users to browse easily from one video of series to another.
I’m glad you like it 🙂 Yes I know I need to do some house keeping. I never expected the site to get as big as it now is
Hi,Really your videos looks great..I am very much inspired by yours and want to create website (programming in PHP) and started creating..but i was stuck in coding php for image slideshow for my website.Hoping help from you.
Thanks in advance!
once again, your videos are very much helpful..thanks for the posts..:)
Thank you 🙂 I’m glad you enjoy the videos. I have a few slideshow tutorials. See which works best for you: Edit the Coda Slider, Make a JQuery Slider, Make Featured Content Slider, How to Make a Slideshow, WordPress Featured Content.
I hope they help – Derek
your tutorials save me always. Thanks a lot!
P.S
can you zip all your exercise file sir derkbanas so that we can easily it to download..
Thank you 🙂 I’m glad they helped. Go to this page PHP and MySQL Tutorial and look for the link PHP & MySQL Code. I hope it helps
great tutorial.can you please tell me in which tutorial you teach how to retrieve data from database .
In these tutorials I explain MySQL and in the last one how to retrieve info from MySQL with PHP. I hope it helps
Web Design and Programming Pt 14 MySQL
Web Design and Programming Pt 15
Web Design and Programming Pt 16
Web Design and Programming Pt 17
Web Design and Programming Pt 18
Web Design and Programming Pt 19
Hello Admin
I would like to ask you about what SQL program do you use?
I use MySQL and I program everything directly in a text editor and the terminal
Thanks. But the videos have no download links.
How can one download the videos and watch offline?
Thank u for your good works.
I will certainly donate to this project soon.
I am actually learning web design right now in India.
I was searching for any youtube video tutorials on javascript, and I eventually stumbled on your site. You actually have some great resources. Pls well done.
Thank you very much 🙂 I’m glad you enjoy the videos. I can’t make the videos available for download directly because I can’t do that with the hosting account I have. I can’t afford a dedicated server.
Please don’t feel obligated to donate. I am very happy that people find my videos useful. That is all I ask for
A.O.A
i am from Pakistan and i always want to become a programmer i was wandering on net for tutorials but never got something which can help me..
and now i hit you web and guess what??
i got what i was looking for.. i just saw 5 vids of php and i am gonna watch all.
keep it up hope you will let them watch us free for ever..
may Allah bless you..
Thank you very much 🙂 I’m very happy to be able to help people all over the world. It is very gratifying for me. Feel free to ask questions and I’ll always try to help. May God bless you and your family as well
Hi,
Thanks so much for the video! It’s a very simple and clear implementation of PHP. Unfortunately, I’m still a serious webdev newbie. Just wondering then, how do I launch my website on localhost? Or in other words, I have the file “phptest1.php”, but how do I make it accessible on my browser??
Thanks!
What OS are you using? Did you install Apache? The easiest way to set up everything on Windows is Wamp and on Macs you can use Mamp. i hope that helps 🙂
Derek,
Thanks for the Wamp link (Windows/Apache/Mysql/Php). As for me, I did the native way with Vista(64Bit)/IIS/MySql(Tbinstalled)/Php.
It is hard and major steps are:
1. Dl and install Php 5.4.23
2. Install windows IIS
3. Config IIS to support PHP with the help from this link.
(http://www.howtogeek.com/50432/how-to-install-php-on-iis-7-for-windows-server-2008/)
4. Create a directory (W/R attribute) like c:\php\xxxxroot and point it a virtual server under IIS because the default hosting directory c:\inetpub\wwwroot is read only and can not be changed.
I listed all these steps to help others in my shoes like you did for so many of us.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for posting that information to help others 🙂
Hi Derek,
First of all I wanna say I really enjoy your tutorials. I’ve been learning a lot from them.
I’m trying to learn a bit more about php web design programming this time.
I use coffecup html editor and when I add php coding into it and test it with the browser, it doesnt publishes as I expect. For example if I write:
<?php echo "Hello”;?>
What I get when I refresh the webpage is:
Hello
“;?>
I’ve tried to google this problem but haven’t got any solution.
Do you know what could be the problem?
I appreciate if you could help with this one 🙂
Hi, Thank you 🙂 I’m glad you like them. I think maybe the double quotes aren’t normal double quotes? See how they bend to the right rather then going straight up and down? That may just be happening because of the comment field on my site, but check that out.
Hi there again,
I checked your tip about the double quotes and it’s not the problem. It’s definetly the comment field on your site.
Any other guess?
Maybe there is an open tag some place? Also very often php bugs occur if you are using the php inside of a page that is also using it. In WordPress for example if you have any trailing whitespace before or after a php tag you’ll get errors.