Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module H105. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in PHP, PHP Programming, Object Oriented Programming in PHP

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PHP Programming - training course - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language PHP Programming - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language This course covers the fundamentals of programming in PHP and Web-related issues ... http://www.wellho.net/course/phfull.html  [course]

Learning to program in PHP - training course - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language Learning to program in PHP - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language This course covers the fundamentals of programming in PHP and Web-related ... http://www.wellho.net/course/pffull.html  [course]

Object Oriented programming with PHP - training course - Making best use of PHP in larger applications Object Oriented programming with PHP - Making best use of PHP in larger applications This course introduces you to object oriented programming principles, ... http://www.wellho.net/course/pofull.html  [course]

Returning multiple values from a function (Perl, PHP, Python) Function in PHP and Python and subs in Perl can only return one "thing" - one item, one object. But all three languages allow that returned item to be ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1202_Ret ... thon-.html  [short article]

Static variables in PHP When you call a function, you typically want a nice clean start with no "leftovers" from the previous call. And that's what you get by default in PHP. ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1380_Sta ... n-PHP.html  [short article]

Defining and calling a function A function - "dress" Function to dress a line of text http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=h105/funky.php  [code sample]

Global, Superglobal, Session variables - scope and persistance in PHP "Global" is a poor choice of word! It really means "share this variable in this function with the variable of the same name at the top level" but there ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/936_Glob ... n-PHP.html  [short article]

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If you have a piece of code that you want to share between a number of PHP web pages, write it into a function! A function is a named block of code into which you can pass a number of variables (known as parameters) and from which a result can be returned.

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in PHP, PHP Programming, Object Oriented Programming in PHP

callback	Calling a list of functions named in an array
dressing.inc	example of "call by name" and defaulting parameters
dropahead.php	Selection from the week ahead
funk2.php	Example with local, global and static variables
funk3.php	Loading functions from an include file
funky.php	Defining and calling a function
funsan.php	Simple sanitisation and sticky field example using functions
hotdiary.php	PHP Diary generator
near.php	Ordnance Survey and Map reference point calculations
stademo.php	use of a static variable in PHP

call by name and call by value - PHP