Writing Website Scrapers in PHP

This article discusses about how to write a website scraper using PHP for web site data extraction. The concepts taught can be applied and programmed in Java, C#, etc. Basically any language that has a powerful string processing capability. This article will teach you the basics of website scraping. The article will further cover a […]

PHP 5 Tutorial - Handling Exceptions in PHP5

In this tutorial we will cover the following:

What is an exception?
The use of a try…catch block
Anatomy of PHP5 Exception class
Extending the Exception class
A note on unhanded exceptions

PHP 5 Tutorial - Final Class and Methods

In this PHP tutorial we will understand the following:

Meaning of Final Class
Meaning of Final Method
When to declare a class as final
When to declare a method as final

PHP 5 Tutorials - Static Data Members and Methods

In this tutorial you will learn all about static data members and methods

Meaning of static data members
Meaning of static methods
Defining static data members in PHP5
Defining static methods in PHP5
Accessing static data members in PHP5
Accessing static methods in PHP5
Rules to keep in mind for static methods

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PHP5 OOPS Tutorials - Polymorphism

In this tutorial we will learn the following:

Meaning of Polymorphism
Why method polymorphism cannot be achieved in PHP
PHP 5 Object Polymorphism

PHP5 Tutorials - Abstract Class and Interface

In this post, we learn what is an abstract class and an interface.

What is an Abstract Class?
Private methods cannot be Abstract
What is an Interface?
Defining an Interface
Abstract Class v/s Interface

PHP Script to print nested array

Here is a script that will allow you to print a nested array upto any level. Can I request you to please review this and let me know how this can be further optimized.

PHP5 Tutorial - Inheritance in PHP5

In the tutorial we will understand what is Inheritance in general and how to inherit classes in PHP5.
Definition of Inheritance:
Inheritance is the mechanism of deriving a new class from an existing class. It allows a sub-class / child class to share/inherit the attributes and behaviors of a base-class or parent class. These inherited attributes and […]

PHP5 Tutorial - Defining Class Constants

In PHP4 the only constants that we would declare were global constants. In PHP5 it is possible to define a class level constant. These constants are specific to the class and hence don’t clutter the global level constant space.

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PHP5 Tutorial - instanceOf Operator Explained

PHP5 introduces a new operator by the name of instanceOf. instanceOf is used to check if two objects passed as operands belong to the same class. This check can also happen when an object is compared with a class name.
In PHP4 a similar functionality existed with a method is_a(), which has been replaced by the […]

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