Following from my last post on the basics of object orientation in PHP, what about object lifetimes. How long does an object hang around for? In PHP you have a __destruct method on a class. This is like the finaliser in C#. For example, here is a HomoSapien class (a natural extension from the object …
Continue reading “PHP for ASP.NET Developers (part 5 – Object lifetime)”
Continuing on my series of getting to know PHP for ASP.NET developers, I’m going to concentrate on the object oriented parts of the language. In order to creating a class is very similar to C#, for example: class Animal { //put your code here } To create a derived class you “extend” the base class. …
Continue reading “PHP for ASP.NET developers (part 4 – Object Orientation)”
Now that the basics have been covered in the previous two posts, I’ll continue with some thing a bit more useful… writing some logic. Conditional Statements In PHP the conditional operators are pretty much the same as in C#, however there are some subtle differences. == and != use type coercion. That means that if …
In my previous post on PHP for ASP.NET Developers, I introduced the basics of how to set up a PHP environment and started showing the differences between PHP’s way of doing things from an ASP.NET developer’s perspective. In this post, I’m continuing with those differences. Comments Comments in PHP are very similar to C#. You …
For some reason that I can’t even explain to myself, I decided it would be a good idea to learn PHP. It is apparently used on roughly 60% of web sites, so it is certainly popular. Quick Start – Install XAMPP To get going quickly I downloaded XAMPP, which is an installation that contains all …
