Episode 035: Level Up As a Developer 3, WordPress and PHP

PHP By Builder

http://www.thewpcrowd.com/podcast/episode-035-level-up-php/

This is our third episode on “Level’ing Up” as a WordPress Developer and this time we are focusing on 1 specific language, PHP. PHP is the language that WordPress is built on, and while many people even learn PHP before turning to WordPress, WordPress itself has been a great stepping stone for developers to learn PHP.

You may here many developers talk about OOP or Object Oriented Programming when it comes to “good code” or “advanced code”. What is OOP? There are many ways to define or create a metaphor for OOP, but I think Carl said it best. OOP is like Lego, each class is a block, properties of that block define out how large it is, what color it is, and other things that make it unique to other blocks. Procedural programming is something you may be more familiar with when just starting with PHP, where typically functions are global, and they call on other functions in a procedure to get the result you want.

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