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• The Lost Art of Reading Documentation

  I remember being 15 (18 years ago 🥲) and learning PHP. Stack Overflow wasn’t as big yet, and finding answers often meant digging through forums filled with half-baked solutions, each dependent on specific hosting configurations. There was no universal standard, some hosts supported certain php.ini settings while others didn’t. The only reliable resource? The official PHP documentation: php.net. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Using named arguments in php8 and up

  That's the first I've heard of it, and I like it! I can't tell you the number of trips to php.net to look at argument order for a function. Is it haystack/needle, or needle/haystack? Of course it could turn into the same thing w/ argument names (is it whole_name or full_name?), but I'm going to use it. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to display results from multiple SQL queries in the same table cell?

  Prepare to spend a fair bit of time reading and going back to phptherightway.com and php.net. I've also found this Tutorial from Envato Tuts+ to be quite good. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Beginner searching for set up resources

  All I want to do with php is to have a recurring navbar on a website. I don't know what to do next. So far I've tried php.net's manual, w3scchool's tutorial and the set up part of first five recommended php tutorials on youtube. I have also spent hours on stackoverflow, which got me even more confused. The more I read, the less nothing makes sense to me and I don't know where the problem is. Source: almost 2 years ago

• date_format crashing on NULL values after upgrade to PHP 8.x

  I tried looking at the upgrade from 7.4 to 8.0 docs on php.net but I don't see anything regarding any changes to this function. Any ideas? Source: almost 2 years ago

• Myra & php.net

  Does anyone else have trouble getting into php.net without some human verification page popping up first? Source: almost 2 years ago

• php.net down??

  I've gone to php.net probably thousands of times over 15 years and have never seen this. If I saw it, like this user did, I'd be curious. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How can I prevent my PHP file from being downloaded?

  I would but cannot access php.net because of blue hardware. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Hey guys! So I've been working with Java for a while now, but I've been offered a job with a PHP project. I don't have any experience with PHP, but I'm excited to learn. Do you have any tips or resources for someone making the switch? Thanks in advance!

  . php.net is the official documentation. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Hey guys! So I've been working with Java for a while now, but I've been offered a job with a PHP project. I don't have any experience with PHP, but I'm excited to learn. Do you have any tips or resources for someone making the switch? Thanks in advance!

  I second phptherightway.com for basics. php.net is the official documentation. Do not get examples from w3schools as so much of the code there is ancient junk. The standard "first project" is to build yourself a simple database-connected api (or blog/notes web-app if you know html/js). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why Stack Overflow rubs beginners the wrong way: It's designed for busy professionals — Jeff Atwood

  If it was a "Help Your Self" site, it would be structured the way the Wordpress developer docs are setup, or php.net. With the full library of classes, function, etc... Ith example code for users. Comments are used on those sites to discuss alternative ways to use the code, class, etc... Opinions and philosophies are removed from comments on those sites. Source: about 2 years ago

• I'd say the "Pre" that used to be in "PHP" still applies...

  According to php.net, PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (no dash in there, which would make it look like PHPP). Source: about 2 years ago

• Array index of the maximum value

  Here I've flattened the array, as the docs in php.net says the `array_map` method keeps the keys while create another array in this case the result would be:. Source: about 2 years ago

• What would be the best way to learn PHP for someone with previous programming experience?

  There are lots of decent video tutorial sites (laracasts has a bunch of basic PHP courses), but unfortunately there are even more totally garbage tutorials for PHP. Take a look at phptherightway.com for a lot of good basics. The php.net documentation is great IMO. Source: about 2 years ago

• Difference in "for" statement syntax between PHP 5 / 7 / 8?

  I will try this -- never thought that my copying/pasting the examples (straight from php.net) would be the problem -- in fact, I trusted them more than my own typing. Thanks, and hope it works. Source: over 2 years ago

• verify if hash + salt and original string is matching via a function

  The exercise is about hashing a string with a salt using the crupt() and a random salt. I achieved to get a random salt by using the rand() function: I'm generating a random number between 10000000 and 999999999 (the smallest and highest number of 9 digit, because an MD5 salt is 12 digit long starting with "$1$" meaning there is 9 digit left to randomize). So basically the first part of the exercise is about... Source: over 2 years ago

• How to move up to PHP 8 and Object Orientation?

  If you are familiar with object oriented design, and familiar with oop from another language, like java or c++, then I'd just read the stuff at php.net, and go from there. Source: over 2 years ago

• What is one of the the worst parts of PHP?

  Keep the docs handy. You'll still need them after 10 years. Source: over 2 years ago

• Build a Speech-to-Text Web Application with Rev AI and PHP (Part 1)

  Internally, each time a new voice note is recorded, the application transmits the audio to the Rev AI Asynchronous Speech-to-Text API for transcription and saves the resulting text transcript to a MongoDB database. The application is implemented using PHP, with the Guzzle PHP client handling application-API communication on the server and Bootstrap and RecordRTC taking care of the client-side user interface and... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• convert wordpress to windows app with php Desktop

  I can't download the 8.1.6 version on php.net only the 8.1.9. Source: over 2 years ago

• Get Started with Speech Recognition in PHP

  To help developers integrate these APIs into their applications, Rev AI also offers SDKs for Node, Java and Python. However, because most of these APIs are REST APIs, it's also easy to use them with other languages...including one of my most frequently-used ones, PHP. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago