There are a lot of blog software’s out there but the best by far is WordPress. It is fully customizable, easy to use, it has a lot of plugins, it is SEO friendly etcetera. In this tutorial you will learn to install WordPress.

I know for sure that every programmer came at least once into a quite a nasty problem and that is “What the hell have I coded here ?”. We all use the IF…ELSE statements and we all get sometimes into very big codes where you don’t understand a thing. In this tutorial you will learn about the SWITCH statement and the TERNARY operator witch are very helpful in this cases. Enjoy!

For this tutorial you will need some files found at http://www.tutvid.com/downloads.html. You will learn to build an email handling PHP script that sends info from your on line form to your e-mail. For this you will need any version of Dreamweaver.

This is a very interesting tutorial if you would like to build your own calculator written in PHP. It guides you through all the steps and it is very clean written and has a good error checking. It uses if, witch and other math functions.

And … from users recommendation I have inserted the php code used in the video:

<?php

if ( !$_POST['submit'] ) {
	echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n";
	echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"calc.php\">\n";
	echo "<tr><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"num1\"/></td>\n";
	echo "<td><select name=\"sign\"><option value=\"plus\">+</option>\n<option value=\"minus\">-</option>\n<option value=\"multi\">*</option>\n<option value=\"divide\">/</option></select></td>\n";
	echo "<td><input type=\"text\" name=\"num2\"/></td>\n";
	echo "<td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Calculate\"/></td></tr>\n";
	echo "</form></table>\n"; 
} else {
	$num1 = $_POST['num1'];
	$num2 = $_POST['num2'];
	$sign = $_POST['sign'];
	
	$errors = array();
	
	$signs = array('plus', 'minus', 'multi', 'divide');
	
	if (!$num1) {
		$errors[] = "You did not supplied the first number";
	} else {
		if (!$num2) {
			$errors[] = "You did not supplied the second number";
		} else {
			if(!$sign) {
				$errors[] = "You did not supplied a sign to calculate your two numbers";				
			} else {
				if (!in_array($sign, $signs)) {
					$errors[] = "Invalid sign for calculation";
				} else {
					if($sign == "divide") {
						if ($num2 == 0) {
							$errors[] = "You cannot divide by 0. Please choose a different number to divide with";
						}
					}
					
					if (!is_numeric($num1)) {
						$errors[] = "Your first number is not numeric";
					} else {
						if (!is_numeric($num2)) {
							$errors[] = "Your second number is not numeric";
						}
					}					
				}
			}
		}
	}
	if (count($errors)>0) {
		echo "The fallowing errors occurred:<br>\n";
		foreach ($errors as $error) {
			echo $error."<br>\n";
		}
	} else {
		switch ($sign) {
			case 'plus':
				$equation = $num1 + $num2;
				$written = $num1 . " + " . $num2;
			break;
			
			case 'minus':
				$equation = $num1 - $num2;
				$written = $num1 . " - " . $num2;
			break;
			
			case 'multi':
				$equation = $num1 * $num2;
				$written = $num1 . " * " . $num2;
			break;
			
			case 'divide':
				$equation = $num1 / $num2;
				$written = $num1 . " / " . $num2;
			break;
			
			default :
				$equation = "";
				$written = "";
			break;
		}
		
		echo $written . " = " . $equation; 
	}
}
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