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Intro to PHP: The Basics

This is a quiz! Submit your answers to the Project Page
This is a quiz! Submit your answers to the Project Page

1. What is a variable in PHP?

2. List all variable types in PHP

3. Explain the difference between the two following statements:
- $a = $b;
- $a =& $b;
4. Identify the three main components of a for loop

5. What differentiates a while loop from a do/while loop?

6. Why is this bad code:

$arr = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0);

for ($i = 0; $i < count($arr); $i++) {

echo $i . "\n";

}

7. What's the proper way to break out of a for loop?

8. What's the difference between '==' and '==='?

9. What is an enumeration in a programming language? Are they natively supported in PHP?

10. What is self-documenting code?
Do You Know The Basics?
This is hopefully an easy assignment. Answer the following questions and post your answers in the discussion thread for Lesson 1. Some of these answers require a bit of googling and/or digging around on php.net!

Intro to PHP: Create Your Development Environment

Set Up Your Development Environment
Get your machine ready for developing PHP. Check the resources for the link to your MAMP/WAMP stack and install it. Also install: PHPStorm, MySQL Workbench. Once your development environment is set up, you need to configure your site root. Refer to the links provided in the resources section on how to do this.

Bootstrapping Our Application

There is nothing 'due' yet. Make sure you're confident about what you have done thusfar!
There is nothing 'due' yet. Make sure you're confident about what you have done thusfar!

Contact me with questions!!!
Create the App Skeleton for Your Project
Create an application skeleton like the one we did in the video lecture
Create the Bootstrap Files
Create the Application Bootstrap files like the ones we created in the video lecture

Creating Our Data Model

Object Oriented PHP

IMGDUEL Foundation API

Constructing IMGDUEL From Our Foundation

Additional Resources

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