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this is a string

Posted on December 7, 2018December 12, 2018 by kristina

You can’t cut these apron strings. A string is simply text. That’s it. I don’t know why programmers don’t just say text, but they don’t. They call it strings.

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this is a path

Posted on December 7, 2018 by kristina

A path in programming is not a treelined trail through a park. A path is the “address” to a file on your computer. The address is made of folder names until the very last one which may be a file name. It doesn’t have to be a file name. It could also be the name…

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This is a pipe.

Posted on December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by kristina

This is not an l , or an i, or a 1, or a capital I. It’s called a pipe. It’s a character on a keyboard that is simply a vertical bar. You find it on the backslash key on a QWERTY  keyboard. What does it do? OR If you put two of them together,…

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Aha! PHP File Structure

Posted on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 by kristina

My struggle with php is with understanding the overall structure of how everything works together. Googling for troubleshooting help is only really useful once you’re in the detailed mechanics of a php error. It doesn’t really help when the problem (like mine). I’ve spent way too many hours trying to figure these things out, and I…

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PDO Statements Explained

Posted on October 18, 2018November 15, 2018 by kristina

PDO Statements in PHP follow a pattern. This pattern is rarely described. Instead, people who understand the pattern, just show you examples of code and explain nitty gritty details, not realizing that the big picture is missing. At least for me. Apparently everyone else gets it and I am in the minority. Or maybe not,…

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