As you all know, we started a web development section here on gHacks. After asking for your opinion and talking about it with Martin, we decided to keep writing 1-2 posts a week here, but move most of the material into a new site called Scriptastique.
Right now we only have the blog, but tutorial [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 9th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Scriptastique web development roundup
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 4th, 2009
- Comments: 2
How echo works in PHP
The most basic command, and probably the first you’ll learn when taking a look at PHP is “echo”. The first example in many books and online tutorials is the following. Create a file, give it an extension of “.php”, upload it to your server, and edit it like so:
<?php
echo ‘Hello World’;
?>
I hate Hello World examples, [...]
PHP – what it does and what it doesn’t
PHP is a Server side scripting language. Its primary competitors are ASP (Microsoft), JSP (Sun), CFM (Adobe), and Perl (often called cgi by hosting companies, although it is not the only cgi language).
PHP was originally created in 1995, so as a technology it is fairly mature. Version 5.x is the latest stable version and 6 [...]
Ghacks Web Development PDF Article Compilation January 09
The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. We are providing article compilations to give you the chance to read the articles offline and keep them as reference without having to [...]
Web Development: PHP – what role does it fill
Before we try to work with PHP we need understand the role it fills – what problem does it address. The World Wide Web is built on a client-server model. A client computer requests a page which is supplied by a Web Server. The browser then renders the page for the user to view. [...]
Web Development: HTML Playground
The first language that you need to learn if you want to start with web development is HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, a set of tags and attributes that can be used to create websites. HTML comes with a limited amount of tags and a basic form that is always the same. It [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 8th, 2009
- Comments: 21
Web Development: How does PHP work?
When someone starts learning web development they usually start with HTML and CSS, and many people get stuck there without ever experiencing the wonderful workd of server side scripting like PHP or ASP. I’ll be talking about PHP here, but the basic rules for ASP and others are the same though.
The most important thing to [...]

