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There are various kinds of operators used in PHP, but we’re going to start with the most basic and commonly known operator - the Math operators.

What are operators? They are basically a special set of characters (or symbols, if you like) which tells PHP to perform a certain operation. For example, the ‘+’ (plus sign) is used for arithmetic adding of 2 values or variables.

Now you know why I’m starting with the Math operators, cos anyone who has had any basis schooling in Mathematics will be familiar with the Math operators.

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Last year, on 31 March 2007, the good folks at Sydney turned off their lights for 1 hour - Earth Hour. By doing so, they’ve made it possible for each and every one of us to take an action on global warming.

Earth Hour is back for 2008 and now other cities around the world, like Toronto, Chicago and many more getting into the act. Are you?

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Adding comments to PHP code is a very useful practice. Comments allows you to add some descriptive text that you can use to document or remind you on what the various parts of the PHP script is doing.

Comments are not sent to the browser, so it won’t be visible in the actual page you load in your browser, but it will be visible in your text editor you use for writing your PHP script.

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In PHP, you can use something called a ‘variable‘ to store values or reference to things. It’s like a container which you can put some thing or things inside which can be easily passed around.

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When anyone starts learning something new these days, they tend to get overloaded with more information that they can handle. The same goes for trying to pick up PHP, the shear number of books available on this one topic is staggering. Luckily, there are some great books specially catered to beginners, and this book is one of them.

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Now that you know how to use XAMPP Lite, it’s time to write your first PHP script.

This tutorial will guide you on writing your first PHP script, show you how the PHP syntax is used, and where to put and run your PHP pages in XAMPP.

Note: this tutorial assumes you are using XAMPP Lite environment for your PHP scripts. If you want to setup your own XAMPP Lite environment, follow this tutorial about installing XAMPP Lite on a portable device.

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Now that you know how to setup your XAMPP Lite, it’s time to find your way around XAMPP Lite, and get ready for your first PHP script.

This post will highlight some of the features available in XAMPP, and what you do with them. It’s just a simple overview, so don’t expect anything in detail. Those will follow in later posts.

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One of the fastest and best way to get a PHP server environment up and going is to use XAMPP. What is XAMPP you say?

Put together by the folks at Apache Friends, XAMPP is an installer package containing the Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP takes away the hassle and headache of installing and configuring each of the parts individually. But best of all – It FREE!

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