Title: Working with Strings and Numbers
Course: COP 2842 Internet Programming > Section: Nine: Working with Strings and Numbers

Introduction

In a prior module, you were introduced to strings and numbers.  In this module, you will learn other essential skills for working with strings and numbers in your web applications.  When you use an HTML form to get data from a user, the data in the form is initially submitted to the server as a string.  As a result, working with strings is an important part of most PHP applications.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

- Work with strings, numeric and date data types.

Instructional Objectives

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

- Use strings and numeric data types in a PHP application.

Reading / Resource

Read:

- Chapter 9: How to work with strings and numbers (Pages 260-288)