On Wed, April 11, 2007 2:09 pm, Chris Lott wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > print 'The cost is ' . $cost;
>> > NOT
>> > print "The cost is $cost";
>> > AND CERTAINLY NOT
>> > print ("The cost is $cost");
>>
>> echo "The cost is ", $cost;
>>
>> If you're going to be this picky, you'd better write your own
>> textbook...
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Perhaps instead of a textbook, just use http://php.net/manual
>
> The manual is not nearly enough reference for a beginning students.
> You illustrate the problem with quotes in your example above-- why
> double quotes with no variable being interpolated?
Surely the lecture is going to cover *something* :-)
That said, I suppose a good textbook *and* assigned readings in
parallel of specific sectionns of the online PHP Manual would be your
best bet.
> The . is the documented string operator for concatenation... that's
> one of the reasons I dislike the unneeded parentheses with the print
> function-- then I have to explain-- before I want to-- arguments to
> functions, which is necessary to explain the comma.
Yes.
One needs to cover each of the following in the first couple classes:
' versus "
function versus language construct
basic operators and syntax (. versus , included here)
One *might* delay all that until the second class, just to get a
sample web page "up" as a first exercise, more or less blindly typing
whatever they are told to type.
But if that materiel isn't covered by lesson 2 or 3 at the latest,
they'll never understand the billion PHP scripts they should be using
as a learning resource...
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