By Frank M. Kromann, Jon Stephens, Nathan A. Good, Lee Babin

Hypertext Preprocessor five (the re-creation of the world's most well liked server-side scripting language) was once unleashed at the international prior this yr, and has long gone down a hurricane with Hypertext Preprocessor builders worldwide - the entire top enjoyed positive factors from Hypertext Preprocessor four were maintained, together with tremendously more desirable object-oriented help, SimpleXML, SQLite, and lots of extra. This ebook saves builders sizeable quantities of time via supplying them with the whole code for the entire universal coding difficulties they're prone to face whilst utilizing personal home page of their day by day paintings. Over two hundred recipes might be integrated for issues similar to math, date and time, arrays, commonplace expressions, variables and capabilities, net fundamentals, HTML types, database entry, automation, safety, photos, internationalization and localization, and lots more and plenty extra. As an further bonus, the publication begins with an in-depth dialogue of Hypertext Preprocessor five object-oriented options and method, to get you on top of things on OOP with Hypertext Preprocessor - the place to exploit it, the place to not use it, the right way to use it. OOP is revisited regularly during the booklet, delivering the reader with the main glossy strategies on hand.

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The prototypes for these two functions are as follows: bool settype ( mixed &var, string type ) string gettype ( mixed var ) Both of these variables may not be the best way to get things done, however. Although gettype() will tell you what the data type of a variable is, you should already have a good idea of what the variable probably is. More often than not, if you are checking on the data type of a variable, you are attempting to confirm that it is the type that you need it to be, quite often for validation.

Although gettype() will tell you what the data type of a variable is, you should already have a good idea of what the variable probably is. More often than not, if you are checking on the data type of a variable, you are attempting to confirm that it is the type that you need it to be, quite often for validation. In this case, each data type corresponds to a function that begins with is_ (see Table 1-2). If you are completely clueless as to what the data type of a variable is, then either you are not paying enough attention to what is going on in your script or you are using it for some extremely heavy debugging.

Org/. Because ArgoUML is written in Java, it should run identically on all common platforms (which is important to us, as we use Linux, Windows, and occasionally FreeBSD and Solaris). It is also easy to install and run: 1. Download the archive for the latest release. 2. Unpack the archive into a convenient directory. 3. Open a shell or DOS prompt. 4. jar (it should not be difficult to create a shortcut to handle this for you). The only other requirement for ArgoUML is that you have the Java 2 Virtual Machine installed on your computer.

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