PHP Basics

Summary

Although the material presented here is not as glamorous as the material in later chapters, it is invaluable to your success as a PHP programmer, because all subsequent functionality is based on these building blocks. This will soon become apparent.

The next chapter is devoted to the construction and invocation of functions, reusable chunks of code intended to perform a specific task. This material starts you down the path necessary to begin building modular, reusable PHP applications.