34099Article: Starting out with PHPhttp://webspot.co.uk/articles/article.php?id=4Hopefully you know what PHP is already. If not I'd better explain it. Right, PHP is a scripting language that you embed in web pages to do advanced stuff. But unlike HTML, PHP is not sent straight to the client to work out it is converted into HTML on the server it is running on and then sent to the client. So this allows you to have a database server set up on your server and you can request records from it whatever way you want! Also because the PHP code is worked out on the server clients are unable to see the PHP code in the page just the outputted HTML!!!PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Introduction to PHPNov 30, 2006Andrew
Strings are probably what you will use most in your PHP script. From concatenating, looking for patterns, trim, chop etc. So I guess it's a good idea to take a better look at this creature. We will also take a peek at some string functions that you might find useful for everyday coding.
Ok, so from the prototype above, we can see the function explode() (a function is denoted by the () after the name as this is where you put any parameters) will create an array (oh the joy):
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