{"id":3769,"date":"2010-04-15T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:15:17","slug":"php-what-you-need-to-know-to-play-with-the-web-smashingmagazine-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/15\/php-what-you-need-to-know-to-play-with-the-web-smashingmagazine-com\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP: What you need to know to play with the web &#8212; SmashingMagazine.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2010\/04\/15\/php-what-you-need-to-know-to-play-with-the-web\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PHP: What you need to know to play with the web<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; SmashingMagazine.com by Christian Heilmann<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What Is PHP?<\/strong><br \/>\nPHP is a server-side language that has become a massive success for three reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a very easy and forgiving language. Variables can be anything, and you can create them anytime you want.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the free LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and thus available on almost any server you can rent on the Web.<\/li>\n<li>It does not need a special editor, environment or build process. All you do is create a file of the .php file type, mix PHP and HTML and then put it on your server for rendering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>From DSC:<br \/>\nChristian makes this sound so easy. However, in my experience, programmers have a different skillset that is not easily mastered or obtained.\u00a0 They have a different way of thinking, and the syntax of coding languages is not something many people enjoy working with. That is why there seems to be two camps: web designers (who focus on the front-end of the web) and web developers (who focus on the back end of things such as application development\/programming and database integration). Sometimes, a person can bridge those two worlds&#8230;but rare is the person who can stay up-to-date and do both sides of the house well&#8230;and consistently over time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHP: What you need to know to play with the web &#8212; SmashingMagazine.com by Christian Heilmann What Is PHP? PHP is a server-side language that has become a massive success for three reasons: It is a very easy and forgiving language. Variables can be anything, and you can create them anytime you want. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,204,134],"tags":[591,674,308],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-programming","category-web-design-and-production","tag-computer-science","tag-programming","tag-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}