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Shaded Pixel PHP Syntax Highlighter

The Shaded Pixel Syntax highlighter increases the readability of your code, and will decrease the time it takes to visually look over a page of code and disseminate the content quickly. Time is money and the personal computer's power has increase tenfold and our ability to absorb a page of programming language in a fraction of the time. Starting in 2010 you life will change if you happen to be a programmer all thanks to Shaded Pixel Syntax highlighter.

Web Development Unites Design and Programming

Web design and Web Programming are united to create Web Development. Many beginning web designers never develop skills that include programming. However, it is imperative to gain knowledge of programming to introduce dynamic elements to your designs. More to come...

Evaluating Variable Status

While using php you will need to evaluate or test your variables using conditional statements or functions. Or by using functions in your conditional statements. there are a few functions that can assist us to determine whether our variables have a value assigned to them, or to check if they are empty or [...]

Functions for Variables

Variables need special attention. Especially when you are using the ===(identical too) comparison operator, which will ensure you have a stricter set of conditional statements. They are as follows: gettype() will return the a string containing the type name or "unknown" if it is not one of the following types (integer, double, string, array, or [...]

Employing PHP operators

PHP operators are symbols that we can use to manipulate variables and their respective values. Using the operator in this way is called using operators in operations. The item that the operator acts upon is called the operand. There are several types of operators in PHP below is a listing of all of the specific [...]

PHP Variable Type Strength

Setting Explicit Variable Type in PHP In PHP the variable types are not explicitly set the majority of the time since PHP is not a strongly typed programming language. "Strongly typed" means that you explicitly define the variable type when defining a variables values. With PHP you can however specify a specific type for your variable [...]

Adobe Creative Suites (CS5, CS4, CS3)

Here you will find all things concerning Adobe Creative Suite 5, Creative Suite 4, and Creative Suite 3. These topics will cover less and less of creative suite 3, and when the time comes, I will also cover topics concerning Adobe Creative Suite 6. When Adobe Creative Suite 6 is issued I will stop support of Creative [...]

Books I have Read…

This is an incomplete list of the books I have read. However, it is a work in progress. Below you will find a list of books on specific topics that over the years I have either read in their entirety, or for the most part have read all of. This is NOT a list of [...]

Increment and Decrement Operator

As you have probably thought prior to coming here, "I wish there was a way to increase or decrease a number without the need to use plus and minus operators over and over." Well if that was what your were thinking, then your idea has been realized with PHP "++"Increment and "--"Decrement. This works the [...]

Avoid Replication with the PHP Reference Operator

Since PHP version 4+ PHP has offered us a way to reduce memory usage in our programs when assigning a variable to another variable. Normally when you assign the value of one variable to another separate variable, the variable that is getting assigned to another is then duplicated by PHP in memory to be [...]