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	<title>PHP Power Coding</title>
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		<title>Commenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far we&#8217;ve only looked at how to write PHP code. But just as important as your code can be the comments you write to explain what your code does.
PHP supports 3 different ways of writing comments. The first 2 are borrowed from C. There&#8217;s the double forward-slash format:
//this is a comment
and the multi-line comment:
/*
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/commenting/387</link>
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		<title>Getting Data from the user &#8211; part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve already looked at using the GET superglobal array to get data from the user through the URL. Another way to get data from the user is through forms. Different form elements work differently.
Here&#8217;s a simple webpage with a form on it, I&#8217;ve mixed in one of each of the input element types that HTML [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/getting-data-from-the-user-part-ii/374</link>
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		<title>Getting data from the user &#8211; part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to being really useful, PHP&#8217;s greatest benefit comes when it can modify the contents of a page based on how a user interacts with it. Key to that ability is getting information from the user to reach your scripts.
There&#8217;s a couple different ways to do that. The first way is by passing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/getting-data-from-the-user-part-i/360</link>
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		<title>Include and require &#8211; part II (how to use an included file)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the previous video we looked at how to specify the location of a file to include both through using an absolute path as well as a path relative to the include path. In this video, we&#8217;re going to look more at how and why to include files.
To begin, you might be wondering &#8211; what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/include-and-require-part-ii-how-to-use-an-included-file/356</link>
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		<title>Include and require &#8211; part I (how to include a file)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up until this point, we&#8217;ve only looked at scripts that are contained entirely in a single file. But in PHP you actually have the ability to split your work up into lots of different files. And in fact, this can be a very handy thing to do, as it can allow you to more effectively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/include-and-require/348</link>
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		<title>Variable Scopes and References</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We already introduced variable scope while looking at how variables behave in functions, but there&#8217;s much more to learn about it. In the video on functions, I hinted that there are ways to access and modify variables declared in the main script from within your function. Actually, there are three specific ways to do this.
Now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/variable-reference-and-scope/317</link>
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		<title>Creating custom functions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As programmers, we often find that we&#8217;re performing the same logic at different times in a number of different places. So, to simplify our code PHP lets us define our own custom functions.
A function is a short-hand way of telling PHP to perform a series of steps we&#8217;ve defined in advance. A function can accept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/creating-custom-functions/311</link>
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		<title>Control Structures, part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous video, we looked at using logical branching structures to control which statements get executed in your code and which get skipped, depending on your data. In this video we look at one more way to control your code&#8217;s execution path &#8211; looping.
Personally, I&#8217;m a huge fan of looping code. One of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/control-structures-part-ii/300</link>
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		<title>Control Structures, part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#8217;ve taken a look at how to build variables, we&#8217;re going to look at how to build the basic logic, called the control structures, that let you manage how your script is executed. Without any control structures, your code will simply execute each line until it reaches the end. But usually you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/control-structures-part-i/296</link>
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		<title>PHP Constants, Magical and Otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve already talked about PHP variables, now we&#8217;re going to look at PHP constants. As the name suggests, once you define a constant, its value doesn&#8217;t change, and your script can&#8217;t un-define it.
PHP comes with many constants built-in for use in situations that require you to interact with certain built-in functions. Generally, these constants are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hiremasonwolf.com/php-constants-magical-and-otherwise/290</link>
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