A String can operate? The PHP string operator, also known as the concatenation operator, allows us to join two strings together. Strings need to be joined for various reasons, such as injecting a variable, or even splitting a long string so that it’s more readable in your IDE. Let’s take a look at the following sentence (string): “I am sick and tired of creating operator tutorials.” We can echo it out or assign it to a variable. We can also split the string up using the concatenation operator and have as many strings as there are characters in it.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of suggestions. If I want a suggestion I will search for it myself. Reading about Mindfulness has enabled me to analyze the thoughts and feelings that I would normally just broadly categorize as “anxiety causing” and move on. Unfortunately, there is no moving on. Unless you figure out the root cause of why you feel the way you feel, it’ll linger with you for years. If you spent a day in my shoes, you would think that I am surrounded by thoughtful, caring people. So why then do I feel anxious when
Advice is something that people love to give. Whether it’s well intended, or not, you’ll receive it at some point in life (probably at some point today). How we deal with advice is the topic of this article. There are three types of advice. The first one is where a person truly tries to help you, and that’s the one I’m good with, as you probably are as well. The second type of advice stems from jealousy, control, misinformation, or something else. It’s not really advice: it’s the type of comment that you receive that makes you not want to
It was my first job as a developer and I was there to make a statement. I was extremely underpaid, but hey, it was my first job after-all. The company did not have a developer and was cautious about even hiring one. My primary objective was to “transfer the product from their existing POS software to a website.” The software was designed to run on AS/400 systems…you know, black background, fluorescent text, no mouse, that kind. There was a way to export the data, but that data was a mess. People that entered product descriptions had absolutely no sense of
Logic dictates. PHP Logical operators are pretty simple if you’ve taken Boolean Algebra or are familiar with logic-gates. You might have even been exposed to logic in Philosophy. If you’re not familiar with logic, this may be a bit of a shock for you. Only joking. It’s just another operator in our disposal that evaluates to either true or false. We looked at how to test whether an expression is true or not, but how can we test whether multiple expressions are true? With logical operators, that’s how. There are a few operators in PHP that test the truth value
But I don’t wanna Decrement. PHP increment and decrement operators: these are operators that either add 1 or subtract 1 from the current value. The operators can be prefixed or post-fixed and will yield slightly different results each time. Increment Operator: ++ Decrement Operator: — Normally, to add 1 to a value, you would use the addition operator. <?php $a = 5; $a = $a + 1; var_dump($a); ?> In the example above, you evaluate the expression on the right, $a + 1, which becomes 6, and then you assign the value back to $a, on the
IT is a department that exists in most organizations, regardless of the size, or at least within the ones that can afford it. It’s a department similar to HR and Finance in the sense that it touches all other departments. Unfortunately, the IT department is frequently overlooked in project planning. It’s also a department that’s valued when the individual’s issues are prioritized and quickly becomes the problem when projects are deprioritized. What’s the solution to this? We’ll explore that in this article. Is the Organization’s IT problem really a problem? Functional Teams Functional teams within an organization tend to focus
Have you struggled to find the time to post quality content? Whether it’s for your own brand or for your business, posting quality content takes time and dedication. You can always throw something random on your page, but that will hurt you more than it will help you. I’m in the process of doing just this and wanted to share my approach. It turns out that it’s all about proper planning. The Struggle If you’re anything like me, you have a full-time job that consumes a good chunk of your day. You have a family that consumes the other portion
So You Want to Compare Stuff? PHP Comparison Operators, or relational operators, test some type of relation between two values. We’ve seen a few comparison operators in math, such as greater-than and less-than; in PHP, we have a few more comparison operators at our disposal. The relational operators that we’re going to be looking at are: Greater-than: > Greater-than-or-equal-to: ≥ Less-than: < Less-than-or-equal-to: ≤ Equal-to: == Identical-to: === Not-equal-to: != or <> Not-identical-to: !== Spaceship operator: <=> The comparison operator, whichever one you choose, will evaluate to either true or false. If we say, 3 > 2, what we’re
This article is not about security. It’s not about established products that are circulating the market. It’s about getting started with software development from the POV of a developer that loves to over-engineer everything. If you’ve read anything that I’ve written previously, you’ll know that I subscribe to the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mindset. When most developers hear MVP, they think about fast turnaround and low-quality code. What most don’t understand is that you can define MVP to fit your mindset. What’s the Problem? The problem is that some developers feel like they need the requirements presented to them in