Monthly Archives: January 2008
MySQL – Connecting, Selecting…. and more.
Today I am going to show you various things that you can do with MySQL using PHP. I am going to assume you have fairly good knowledge of PHP while following these instructions. Connecting to MySQL Connecting to MySQL is … Continue reading
Sanitizing $_POST and $_GET
Hey, Well I haven’t posted something PHP related for quite a few days now so I thought I’d show you something I use in every single script that I write that involves form submissions or URL data. It is important … Continue reading
FORTRAN and Other Programming Languages from the 50’s
FORTRAN-FORmula TRANslating system was invented in the year 1957. The language was very easy to use as it contained limited commands like GOTO, IF and DO. FORTRAN paved the way for today’s languages as it contained basic data types like … Continue reading
Programming on Electronic Devices
Computers cannot interpret human languages. They have their own language which is known as binary language. It is the language of 0’s and 1’s. So to command or program a computer to get the desired results one had to first … Continue reading
How It All Began…
The traces of programming can be found as early as 2000 years ago with the invention of Abacus, a device made of wood which had two parallel strings fixed horizontally on it. On these strings, beads were embedded. Using programming … Continue reading
John Von Neumann’s Two Programming Models
In 1945 a revolutionizing concept was invented which would change the way programming was performed. A scientist named John Von Neumann working at the prestigious Institute for Advanced studies in Princeton, New Jersey created two programming models. John named the … Continue reading
The First Programming Language
The first ever machine which calculated the difference between numbers was developed by Charles Babbage. This machine evolved with time and is called a computer nowadays. The machine which Charles Babbage invented used to perform only one operation i.e. calculating … Continue reading
The Basic: C Programming will always be popular
C is a general purpose computer coding language which works closely with hardware. C was invented by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson with the help of their team mates at AT&T Bell Lab’s USA in the year 1969 but major … Continue reading
The Beginning of PHP
PHP – Hypertext preprocessor is basically a computer coding language. The language was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf and was developed by the PHP group. PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to help maintain his personal homepage. He had … Continue reading
PHP – The Basics – Tags, echo and if/else
One of the most basic things when writing code in PHP is to use the PHP tags which signify the beginning and the ending of the PHP code. You must have the tags in order for PHP to process the … Continue reading