Apostolos Dountsis

The power of PHP rests on its simplicity and speed. One of the common uses of dynamic pages is the processing of HTML forms. PHP does not offer any functions for the development of web forms so managing one in PHP tends to be nothing more than a sequence of print statements. The PEAR library contains the HTML_QUICKFORM package that provides all the necessary classes and methods to display and manage HTML forms.

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During one of my web surfing expeditions, I stumbled upon this comparison between mathematicians and programmers. The author states that “a solid block of code is like a well proven theorem” and I couldn’t agree more.

Mathematics train the brain to operate in a organised manner and develop a coherent way of thinking that facilitates in problem solving.

Ted has now started publishing a series of articles under the title “Programming like a Mathematician“ that should be read by every programmer.