Category5 Technology TV - Beginner-to-Intermediate PHP Part 2: Counting with PHP

Beginner-to-Intermediate PHP Part 2: Counting with PHP

S05E26
March 20, 2012

We're learning to program web applications on Category5 TV, and this week Robbie and Hillary take you through a while() statement in PHP to count up from zero.

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{play 33:57}Feature: PHP Develpoment Part 2: Counting with PHP. http://demo.cat5.tv/012
Opening and closing PHP tags.
Setting up a string to hold your number.
Setting a static number value to a string in PHP.
Using basic algebraic addition to increment a number in PHP.
Creating our first PHP while() loop to automatically increment a number.
Using simplified PHP commands to cut down on needless code.
Using counting to flow through the data in an array which is sorted by numerical key.
Stylizing content output in a PHP while() loop.
Viewer Question: How would you make just the word "Title" bold, but leave the number not bold?
Using PHP's explode() function to separate a string or array key value by a particular character or set of characters.
Viewer Question: I have some experience with bash and perl programming in Linux, and Visual Basic in Windows. I can't quite grasp why you're adding the association ['file'] to an array. Why is that there?
Understanding the structure of an associative array. [demo.odt]