June 20, 2023

What is PHP OOP? Object-Oriented Programming for Beginners

June 20, 2023

I often hear Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) referred to as a programming style that uses ‘blueprints’ (hence the use of the house for this blog’s graphic!). In many ways, I can see why that is the case.

July 21, 2021

Patrick Morrow

Courses

SALE: PHP For Beginners 2021 - Fully reworked and re-recorded

July 21, 2021

Patrick Morrow

Courses

SALE: PHP For Beginners 2021 - Fully reworked and re-recorded

To celebrate the full rework of the extremely popular PHP for Beginners 2021 course you can now get $100 off the normal price. Discount codes expire soon so be quick!

https://courses.coding.academy/php-for-beginners-learn-by-doing?coupon=PHPFORBEGINNERS2021

July 7, 2021

Patrick Morrow

Courses

PHP for Beginners: Part 4 - Build a Game

July 7, 2021

Patrick Morrow

Courses

PHP for Beginners: Part 4 - Build a Game

In this brand new course you will learn how to create a hangman word game. This course can be taken as a standalone course or as part of the extremely popular PHP for Beginners series which has been followed by over 8000 students.

July 25, 2019

Patrick Morrow

CSS

How to Use FlexBox and the CSS :nth-child Property

July 25, 2019

Patrick Morrow

CSS

In this brief lesson I will show you how you can use the CSS :nth-child property. This is one property that I often overlook but one which can be put to really good use.

July 21, 2019

Patrick Morrow

Coding Challenges

Coding Challenge: Use HTML, CSS and PHP to Create a Grid

July 21, 2019

Patrick Morrow

Coding Challenges

In this coding challenge you need to use HTML, CSS and PHP to create a 10 x 10 grid pattern as shown below. The task is relatively straightforward but will get you using a combination of HTML, CSS and PHP to achieve the desired output.

July 13, 2019

Patrick Morrow

Apache, PHP, MySQL

How to install MAMP on Mac

July 13, 2019

Patrick Morrow

Apache, PHP, MySQL

In this tutorial you will learn how to install MAMP on a Mac. If you want to do any development work in PHP and MySQL then you will need to install a server environment which includes Apache and MySQL. The most popular way of doing this is to use a stack such as MAMP.

July 12, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

PHP Coding Challenge: How to create a multiplication grid in PHP

July 12, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

This is a nice little challenge that will get you thinking about various aspects of the processes involved. If you think back to your days in school you may remember the multiplication tables and, in particular, the multiplication grid that looked something like this:

July 10, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP, Coding Challenges

PHP Coding Challenge: Let's go Shopping

July 10, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP, Coding Challenges

This challenge is taken from the extremely popular PHP for Beginners course. In the challenge you need to take the credit card number from a user’s input and check if it is valid.

July 1, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

How to Turn on PHP Error Reporting in MAMP

July 1, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

One of my students asked a question this week about error reporting. When following one of the lessons in the PHP for Beginners course he should have received an error (intended error) but it did not show. He was curious as to why he did not receive the error as he was supposed to.

June 28, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

How to use PHP $GLOBALS

June 28, 2019

Patrick Morrow

PHP

In this lesson I will show you how to use the super global variable $GLOBALS. The super globals can be extremely useful despite some of them being used less frequently than other PHP features.