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Opinions were decidedly mixed among the Orange about the appeal and/or usefulness of fall ball.
Steve Panarelli, who is a senior captain but has played such an integral part on the team for so long it seems like he's been at SU forever, was less than enthusiastic about the lacrosse preliminaries:
"By senior year, you've done the fall already and you kind of realize the only thing that matters is the spring," Panarelli said. "I love playing and it's fun, but it's kind of like -- let's just get to the spring. It's good for the young guys and it's good for us to get back into the swing of things, but for me it's kind of like let's get to the spring and to games that matter."
Greg Rommel, the grad school captain, would have seconded those sentiments (especially with the weather turning, um, crisp), but this year, Rommel was almost giddy about fall ball, for good reason: He missed most of last season with a thumb injury.
"This year, I couldn't wait for it. I really couldn't wait to get out here and just play again," Rommel said. "This year I kind of got a new appreciation for it."
Said fellow captain Evan Brady: "I think it's good. You definitely need to get out and get people going. But I think it is good to have a break from lacrosse or else you burn yourself out. But we don't really stop. We stop practicing with sticks and pads but kids will be out there shooting around, playing wall ball. Our practices then become lifting and running."
Other odds and ends... Brady said replacing John Wright would be a daunting task this season. SU players respected Wright and his lacrosse intellect.
Brady said he's hoping Panarelli would replace Wright. But given Panarelli's fine season at the pole last year, doesn't that just amount to wishful thinking?
"I think some games it might be more realistic than others," Brady said. "When the other team has an ace middie, he's obviously going to have to go up and play him. But if other teams don't really have that ace middie and in just running their offense will tend to drag that pole to the crease, I think he'll be more effective if he plays down low."
... And did you know that Nate Tucker, the freshman middie from Fayetteville-Manlius High School, is following in the footsteps of his grandfather Bob, who played lacrosse for SU (1952-55) with Jim Brown.
"He told me a story that (Jim Brown) shot a ball through a guy's mask one time," Nate said.
Nate Tucker (6-foot, 170) describes his own game this way: "Not too flashy. I like to take guys one-on-one."
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Eating Houston with One of Its Best Chefs
I've already talked about how Houston is THE BEST food city in Texas. (Sorry, Austin). Part of why Space City rules is the sheer breadth of options–from Vietnamese, to Tex-Mex to homegrown, chef-driven spots.
Speaking of chefs, who better to turn to for a tour of Houston's scene? After all, chefs eat a lot, they eat often, and they chase taste, not hype. So I asked Chris Shepherd of the soon-to-open Underbelly to share his favorite stops for ethnic eats H-Town.
STOP 1 "When I need my authentic Mexican kick, my wife and I head to El Hidalguense [pictured] for a weekend blowout. There's live mariachi music, freshly made tortillas, cold beer, and insanely good baby goat spit-roasted before your eyes." 6917 Long Point Rd.; 713-680-1071
STOP 2 "Vieng Thai serves the best Thai in the city. And the place is BYOB. Order the raw-sausage-and-ginger salad called yum nheam and you're likely to hear, 'No, you can't have this. It is for Thai people. It will make you sick.' Insist on it." 6929 Long Point Rd.; 713-688-9910
STOP 3 "In Chinatown, Fu Fu Cafe–not to be confused with Fu Fu Restaurant nearby–does a version of soup dumplings that blows my mind. I've asked to see how they make them and I'm always denied. I'd keep that recipe secret, too." 9889 Bellaire Blvd.; 713-981-8818
STOP 4 "Sunday morning, and I'm a bit bleary-eyed from a busy Saturday night. It's dim sum time: specifically Hong Kong Dim Sum. Get there before noon or be prepared to wait. The steamed shrimp dumplings, steamed pork spareribs, and pork-and-preserved-egg congee are my must-orders. You can be adventurous, since each dish costs about three bucks." 9889 Bellaire Blvd.; 713-777-7029
STOP 5 "London Sizzler is my favorite restaurant in town. This is Anglo-Indian at its finest. The smell of spices and curries mixes with Indian techno music, and the Boddingtons on tap is always cold. Ajay Patel plays the consummate owner-host while his parents turn out flavor bombs like goat biryani, spicy jeera wings, and handmade naan." 6690 Southwest Fwy.; 713-783-2754
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As Google co-founder, Larry Page probably feels like he already owns the Internet, but with his $30.8 billion fortune, he can also own wealthy Florida retirement haven Boca Raton for $29.5 billion. That way he and all of Google's employees can have a retirement home - well, actually, each of them could have two of the city's 99,964 homes.
In Boca Raton, the most expensive listing (pictured above) was recently marked down $5 million - to $40 million.
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Luvvv the story, its inspiring, imagine dripping in luxuryyyyyyyyyyy purrrrrrrrrr r r r l l lReply
THE FUNNIEST THING IS ...that everyone donated to them ,to put them there ,........buying their wares ,...........so ..!!! who is the fool ???....ALSO IN REALITY ...if they all 10 handed the money back ,..........we'd all be richReply
Don't worry you people who are in big debts, and those who run around in their pin strip suites, and Roles Royce's, big Cars, and their Wealth, The good Book Says go Gristle, and Cry you Miserable, unhappy Rich People, because its a lot easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a Rich Man or Woman to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, Humble yourself, before The Lord Jesus Christ; and He will Lift you up:I Would Rather be Rich in the Things of GOD, and Know I have an eternal Home in Heaven, For myself and all my Family, and Friends, and those who give their lives to Him to save them from a greedy World here on Earth. So Keep Your greedily, earned Money, and try and Buy your way Into Heaven you are so Poor and Re-chard, in your Present Life:Reply
The story highlights how huge the gap between the haves and the have nots has become. For anyone to have so much wealth they couldn't possibly spend it in their lifetime, while there are billions living in abject poverty, is obscene. The brilliant scientist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, even goes so far as to predict the ever enlargening wealth gap will be the demise of modern society. People with that much wealth lose their ability to empathise with normal people, and indeed view them as lesser beings. I can see why it may end very badly for society!Reply
This story is profoundly sick !!!!!!! Money doesn't make you happy it just makes you grumpy tight fisted and an egotistical BIG HEAD. This story is the equivalent to a #$%$ EXTENSION for the RICH, I bet they get a HARD - ON just thinking about their BILLIONS of Dollars - WHILE the other 98% of the world SUFFER IN POVERTY. Also what happens if the POOR or anyone else doesn't WANT to SELL will the RICH just RUN them OVER with their MONEY TRUCK ??? (AKA THE CORRUPT - GOV - POLICE) Like the Brasilian gov did to the POOR in the Favela's so they could BUILD DUMB FOOTBALL STADIUMS !!!!!!!!!!!! VIVA LA REVOLUTION i sayReply
This story is rubbish You couldn't buy Washington DC for 110 Billion or Las Vegas for 86.5 billion. I doubt they could even buy the Gold Coast for that.Reply
No offense intended to the wealthy few but it makes me wonder why there are so many homeless people suffering and the number keeps growing. Again no offense intended, please forgive my ignorance but are you well off folks really proud of your excessive wealth? Can you spend it all before your time on earth ends? If not then why try so hard for more and more? I really don't understand your mindset. As for this story, is it just to rub salt in the life wounds of those who are much less fortunate? What's the point in being so rich if it hardens you so much that you then care very little about the majority of average (normal) folks you share the planet with?Reply
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*Where's Angel? Phillies flush Mets 10-0 (New York Daily News)
PHILADELPHIA - The count was 3-2 on Nick Evans in the top of the fifth inning Monday night when Angel Pagan realized he was needed on the field.
In the dugout, Terry Collins shrugged and began yelling for Pagan.
"They said, 'He's upstairs,' " Collins said, after Cliff Lee and the Phillies unloaded on the Mets for a 10-0 win.
*Pelfry not likely to be Mets closer (New York Post)
*Reyes set to begin rehab stint on Thursday (MLB.com)
*Mets prospect Jenrry Mejia won't be thrown into team's closer situation (NJ.com)


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A bill that would further restrict abortion access in Louisiana and likely result in the closure of three of the state's five abortion clinics is headed toward final passage in full Senate.
Vocal support of Gov. Bobby Jindal for the legislation suggests the new requirements for doctors who perform abortions will be enforced by Sept. 1, 2014.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved the bill, sponsored by Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, without objection, after hours of testimony. The House overwhelmingly passed it, and it received no objections from House committee members.
The legislation would require physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the procedures take place. It also imposes the same restrictions -- such as a requirement for a 24-hour waiting period -- on abortion-inducing medication as surgical abortions.
Dr. Damon Cudihy, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Lafayette, said the bill closes a legal loophole by requiring doctors who perform abortions to abide by the same standards as other doctors who perform outpatient surgical procedures.
"The person who suffers most from this special interest loophole is women under (the doctor's) care whose health is endangered," Cudihy said.
Ellie Shilling, an attorney from New Orleans who advises abortion clinics there countered Cudihy's claim. She said the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners only requires admitting privileges for doctors performing outpatient procedures that involve deep sedation, which doesn't include abortion procedures.
"(Doctors who perform abortions) are being held to entirely different standards than other doctors," she said. "(The bill) singles out doctors who perform abortions for disparate treatment under the law."
Sylvia Cochran, administrator of clinics in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, said religiously affiliated hospitals like those in Baton Rouge will not grant admittance privileges to abortion provider doctors, adding "I understand that."
Others, like Children's Hospital in New Orleans, are reluctant to do so, she said, "because they will have a line of protesters around their building and it will be a publicity nightmare."
Cochran told supporters that if their true motive was safety of women, they would consider the consequences of facilities shutting down because they're unable to comply with the law. "If they shut us down, where are patients going to go? They're not going to stop having abortions."
Cochran said she's already hearing about the fallout of the new restrictions on clinics in Texas, which provided a blueprint for Jackson's bill. Desperate women seeking abortions are buying abortion pills from across the border for less than $200 with little to no medical direction or supervision, she said.
To begin her testimony, Jackson spoke candidly about her bias on the issue. 'I am pro life," she said. She recognized, however, the constitutional rights of women to get an abortion and tailor her bill within the realm of the law. Rarely before, she said, had she felt so strongly about a piece of legislation.
Testifying against the bill, pediatrician Dr. Sarah Dumas said efforts to lower abortion rates would be better focused on reducing unwanted pregnancy. "I feel (the bill is a) distraction from the real problem that I see, which is unplanned pregnancy."


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AMHERST – Captain Maralyn Ralph's voice on the phone was a little choked.
"Overwhelming…I get overwhelmed right now," said the cadet instructor.
Just talking about the honour bestowed on her Feb. 20 is enough to evoke emotion. Ralph was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal on that day in Sydney.
"It (was) and honour to be standing next to my peers…," she said.
Six cadet officers and one cadet were recipients. Ralph is one of just 100 recipients of the medal out of about 3,000 cadet leaders across the country.
It's a fitting end to her time with cadets. Ralph is a cadet instructor with 154 Amherst Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron. She turns 55 in August, which means she'll be retiring.
"Not that I want to," said Ralph.
The captain has been involved with the Department of Defense-funded youth organization for a quarter century. She had no military training – "none whatsoever" – when she began helping with administration in 1988. Her cadets taught her to march.
In the decades since, there have been courses and summer camps, and flying scholarships to organize.
She was nominated for the medal by her cadets and superior officers. Overwhelming was how she described the feeling of having the medal pinned to her jacket. A prsee release about the event said she was being recognized "for her years of dedicated service and outstanding leadership as the commanding officer of several air cadet squadrons."
"Additionally, Capt. Ralph was praised for her involvement in planning and hosting several band seminars," it further said, "which have allowed hundreds of cadets to expand their exposure to music."
Ralph said she'd never dreamt of receiving an award like the jubilee medal. Her reaction when she was notified says it all.
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Rankings are a fixture in mixed martial arts. Even before the UFC released its own official rankings, most MMA news outlets had their own division-by-division listings.
Whether they are seen as official or just someone's opinion, rankings have served to shape the collective view of the MMA landscape for at least the past decade.
Some MMA enthusiasts love the prevalence of rankings, while others deem them misleading or irrelevant. Some see them as a tool to determine right of way for big fights and title shots, while others see them as promotional tools that serve as evidence against the corrupted logic that determines such dealings.
Whether you rate rankings as valuable or worthless, they hold a measure of intrigue for just about everyone. Either taken as legitimate accolades to reaffirm a fighter's position in the sport or just another chance to argue, rankings are invariably an engaging topic.
Because the UFC has something of a monopoly on rankings these days—with publishing an official set for its own promotion and with the promotion dominating the sport—we at Bleacher Report decided to commit to a different exercise.
Taking a broader view, we've assessed the accomplishments of fighters—not in a vacuum of the here and now but across the history of the sport. Using these assessments, we have created top-three rankings for each major division in MMA.
Due to the relative youth of women's mixed martial arts, we've elected to go the route of a pound-for-pound listing for our WMMA selections.


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Borderlands 2's ultimate campaign DLC is here, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is now available and we have the launch trailer to prove it. This is the one you've been waiting for, folk. It's made entirely in-house at Gearbox, it marks the return of a ton of fan-favorite characters and voices, and it's bigger and badasser than probably all of the other DLC for Borderlands 2 combined.
Did I mention yet that it's basically built from the ground up for nerds? Every second is chock full of referential nerd humor and mockery. Yes, we're nerds. Yes, we're ridiculous. Yes, it's all hilarious. In a world full of golems, dragons, dwarves and undead skeletons if you're taking it seriously then you're doing it wrong. Oh, and guns that shoot exploding swords. How about that?
Check out Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep right now via PC and perhaps also on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, though I can't confirm they're available yet. Let us know if you can play the DLC yet, console Borderlands 2 players. Where does Gearbox go from here? More campaign DLC? Borderworlds reveal?
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Arlington food bank sees record turnout
ARLINGTON — The Arlington Community Food Bank served a record-breaking number of families during its annual holiday food basket handout Dec. 22.
Approximately 355 baskets were distributed to families at the food bank during the seven-hour handout session. Each family received one basket.
"This was our largest handout we've ever done in terms of the amount of folks we've had," said Cindy Moe, Board member of the food bank. "Typically we serve about 300 families, and our average family size that we serve is four."
An additional 100 families were adopted out from the food bank to the Rotary Club of Arlington and other service clubs, churches and private residences, Moe said.
Volunteers began putting the food baskets together on Sunday, Dec. 20, and had 165 baskets by the end of the day. On Tuesday, volunteers spent three hours making more, Moe said, and additional baskets were compiled throughout the day.
Each basket contained essential supplies, such as flour sugar, butter, condiments and bread. Each family also received a $10 gift card for meat, a turkey, cranberry sauce and cake and muffin mix for a holiday meal.
Baskets were distributed 1-8 p.m. to residents who lived within the Arlington School District.
"Anyone who came in could have one as long as they lived here," Moe said.
Between 20-25 volunteers were on hand at the food bank throughout the day sorting supplies and carrying baskets to residents' cars, as well as other tasks.
As the sun went down Tuesday, volunteers Korene Thomas and Shirley McLane were busy inside the food bank wrapping up food items into baskets. The women had been at the food bank since that morning.
Outside, siblings Natasha and Josh Katanik — 15 and 19 — sorted through large boxes of eggs, onions and apples.
"We couldn't do it without the volunteers," Moe said. "Four times the amount of volunteers are used during Thanksgiving and Christmas handouts. We also deliver the food to shut-ins."
The Arlington Community Food Bank offers handouts for eligible residents each Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. and Friday from 1-2 p.m.
The food bank is currently planning to build a new facility near the Arlington Municipal Airport next year to accommodate its greater need, Moe said.
For more information about the food bank, which is located at 127 W. Cox Avenue, call 360-435-1631.
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Best lyric: "I'm just fuckin' depressed, I just can't seem to get out of this slump/If I could just get over this hump/But I need something to pull me out of this dump"
What makes the video great: Along with artists like Bob Seger and Kid Rock, Eminem has always shown the love to his decaying hometown, Detroit. This atmospheric Anthony Mandler-directed clip completely adds a different meaning to the song, taking the tale of his feelings of disenfranchisement and disillusionment, with Detroit's downfall as he walks through burnt-out ruins of his beloved city. Moving and effective still, especially as Detroit's fortunes seem to only sink further. Built around Queen/Paul Rodgers' version of "Reaching Out," the tune gets the haunting video it deserves
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'I am not overconfident' - Armstrong
EDITOR'S NOTE: Second in a series of Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley candidate profiles running in the Truro Daily News this week and next. Tomorrow, watch for Liberal candidate Jim Burrows.
TRURO - While some pundits are forecasting another Conservative victory in central and northern Nova Scotia, incumbent Scott Armstrong is taking nothing for granted.
"As a coach in basketball, I'd rather play with a lead, but the game is not over until the buzzer sounds, to (use) a sports analogy," the high school coach said.
Armstrong has been Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley member of Parliament for about 500 days since garnering 46 per cent of the vote in the November 2009 byelection.
Some pundits say it is Armstrong's election to lose this time around with at least one website forecasting he will receive upwards of 50 per cent of the vote. Armstrong admits to looking at polls but will continue working hard knowing he is campaigning against good opponents.
"I am not overconfident," he said. "We don't sit back on our laurels - we're going to campaign hard."
During his victory speech two years ago, Armstrong committed to working to get federal support for the civic centre in Truro and to rebuild the Advocate Harbour seawall.
He said the proposed Hilden interchange and energy projects in Cumberland County are on his to-do list, if re-elected.
Campaigning in downtown Truro on Friday with incumbent Central Nova MP Peter MacKay and Truro Mayor Bill Mills, Armstrong stopped and talked to Darcy Pittman. The 28-year-old Truro resident said politicians are not targeting the youth vote.
"A lot of young people nowadays ... don't vote because they see no appeal there for them," continued Pittman, noting young adults don't see politicians speaking to issues that directly affect them.
Pittman is on a fixed income after a forestry accident a decade ago left him disabled and is looking for help in getting back into the workforce.
"I try everywhere to find jobs and I just can't find a job in this town," he said.
The politicians said programs might exist to assist him. Pittman later admitted to being a Jack Layton fan, but said the Conservative trio said some good things that spoke directly to him.
"They're giving me a lot of things to think about," he said.
During the visit in downtown Truro, a familiar subject also came up. It was the disdain some people still have for Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper dating back to his comments that there was a "defeatist attitude" in Atlantic Canada and his treatment of the riding's former member of Parliament, Bill Casey.
For his part, Armstrong said he is not hearing it much as he campaigns this time around.
"In the byelection we did hear a lot of it. It was a communication challenge for me as a candidate," he said. "I think people have moved on ...
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After her boyfriend dumps her, a quirky teen (Savanah Wiltfong) enrolls in his school as part of a plan to win him back.
Cast: Melissa Leo, Savanah Wiltfong, Meaghan Jette Martin, Shayne Topp, Vanessa Marano, Elaine Hendrix, Chase Wright Vanek, Beth Grant
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Many of you have been asking us about the damage and recovery efforts at Historic Richmond Town. We have been reluctant to share our story because so many friends, neighbors and supporters have been devastated by the storm. We did not want to take the focus off them.
Now that some time has passed, we thought it was appropriate to share our story. The good news is that all of our staff, board and volunteers are safe and secure. Many lost power, some were displaced from their homes and a few continue to house family and friends. But, most importantly, they are all well.
Historic Richmond Town covers four sites and 100 acres with almost 40 very, very old wooden structures. We are large, spread out and have hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable American artifacts in our care.
We are relieved to report that the historic homes and other buildings did not suffer catastrophic damage from wind or fallen trees. But two historic homes were flooded. Another home was weakened due to the wind. Others sustained damage to their facades and roofs.
A storage building with precious artifacts was flooded with grimy ground water. In addition, we dealt with over a dozen felled trees and dangerous dangling branches. Our phone system was zapped and we lost heating and electrical service in many buildings.
To sum up, American history suffered multiple blows.
Staten Island's Historic Richmond Town damaged from Sandy
Our small but truly amazing staff prepped for Sandy by securing areas, moving out collection items and sandbagging flood-prone areas. They responded to the storm by bailing water, felling trees, cutting up branches, rearranging collections, cleaning debris and making repairs. They were heroic. While many staffers were homeless and powerless, they walked, biked and bused to work or used precious gas to come in, to get Historic Richmond Town back on its feet.
Beyond this, many staff members still found extra time to volunteer or contribute to disaster relief in harder-hit neighborhoods. They stayed smiling and never complained. They are true Staten Islanders.
Today, we are left with damage and a tremendous amount of lost income. The storm hit during one of our busiest times. We will need to make up many thousands of dollars in lost income alone. The total damage is still being assessed. Our expenses are still being counted.
We have already registered with FEMA and are working with our insurance carrier. We already received a recovery grant from the New York Council for the Humanities -- thank you! But how much we can recover in total is unknown at this time.
Please know that we have leaned heavily on some wonderful resources. The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Historic House Trust (NYC Parks) are two agencies that have been relentless in getting Historic Richmond Town the help it needs.
Councilman Jim Oddo reached out to us right from the very beginning, as the winds were howling, just to make sure everyone was safe and to offer any help. Finally, the Borough President's office and Staten Island Chamber of Commerce have been right there on the front lines, spending sleepless hours so we may rest easier.
We are grateful that we live in a community where, despite differences, people love and care for each other. The world is watching us now. And what they see is a small town that will not quit. They see neighbor helping neighbor. They see the true meaning of friendship. They see the power of local people working together, rebuilding and refusing to look back. They are watching the Great Recovery.
Like many homeowners, Historic Richmond Town will not receive all that it needs from insurance claims. We will rely on neighbors, friends and supporters. We can't do it without you.
A gift of any amount will help us restore the only museum in New York City that celebrates centuries of American life. Help us to continue to share the stories of America with children. Let's continue to share how ordinary people worked hard every day to build this extraordinary country.
Although we are all still reeling from Sandy's blow, we are honored to be part of The Great Recovery with you. Staten Islanders prove once again that they stand together and strong. ÃÂ
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PHP code is often required for some HTML pages to function correctly. Fortunately, PHP can easily be embedded into an HTML page with a PHP tag. These PHP tags turn on PHP and process the code, then turn off PHP once the code has been processed. Learn about the fundamental rules of embedding PHP code on a page in this PHP with MySQL online tutorial.
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Now that we have PHP installed. Were ready to start learning how to use it. We're going to start by learning how to embed PHP code in a page. Because there's some basic rules that we need to know about. We already did this in the setup chapter. We created our first file which was my_PHPinfo.PHP. And we populate with just this one little snippet of code. And you may not have completely understood what it was at the time, you may have just followed along. That's okay were now going to talk about it, and talk about how this works. Notice that there's the beginning, and ending to this line with a bit of code in the middle.
I'll drop out the code in the middle, so you can really see the difference. This is the beginning of opening a PHP tag, and the end, closing PHP. What we're doing is essentially saying to the Apache server, hey, as you're processing this document, turn on PHP. Start reading the next little bit as being PHP code, and then when it gets to the end and it sees that question mark with the greater than, The tag is over. Now we're done with PHP. You can go back to doing your regular html rendering.
This allows us to embed PHP into the html. Remember, in the early introduction I talked about taht that's one of the features of PHP. Is that we can just embed in the html code. So we're essentially telling Apache to turn on and turn off PHP filtering as it's going through the document. And then in between, we can put whatever PHP code that we want. So if you look at somebody else's PHP code,you're going to see these open and closing tags throughout the document, as it's turned on and off. This isn't the only way that you can write these PHP tags. There's also something called Short-Open Tags.
These, I would say, are considered bad form. This is using the same tag, but omitting the letters PHP from it. There's also a form that uses the question mark followed by an equal sign which outputs the results directly. normally evaluating the PHP doesn't output results on its own, you have to tell it specifically I want to output something here, otherwise you could just do some processing, you could add one plus one... and not out put the results and do a calculation in there for the second for Mr. this has become more popular especially to a lot of experienced PHP developers has started to prefer having the shortcut but it's still a bad idea and we will talk about why just a second The other way that you could do it is to use ASP style tags. I think this is considered very poor form, instead of using the question mark, we use the percent sign.
ASP is Microsoft's version of PHP. It's what became asp.net. ASP was something that actually existed before asp.net. And this is the way that the tags look. They have the percents on either side. And again we have that equals there. Both of these options are something you can turn on and configure in your PHP INI file to allow them. otherwise you need to stick with the regular default PHP text. So why am I saying that this is a bade idea to create these kinds of texts. Well, it's specifically because they're enabled in the PHP INI file.
one of the wonderful things about PHP is that the code is portable. A version of PHP on Windows and MAC and Linux is all exactly the same. My code can just run on one, it can be moved to the other one and run their just as easily. But, if I make a choice to use a different style of tag and I require that the php.ini file be configured a certain way, then my code stops being portable. Now, it will no longer run on this other system because it's not configured correctly and I think that's a bad thing. If we just stick to the default standard tags, then our code will stay portable.
And that's going to be especially true if you start writing code that's going to be a plug in for existing application like Wordpress or Drupal or something. You want to be able to distribute that and have everyone be able to use it. So you want to be in the habit of using good, widely available, widely supported PHP tags. Otherwise, I think you're shooting yourself in the foot before you've even started. There are a couple of other points that I want to make about your php code. If we open up our myphpinfo.php file, I want to show you that the white space doesn't matter. White space inside the PHP code doesn't matter.
This is just as valid as what we had before. Same here, if we put more returns in here, tabs, spaces, those are all considered white space. And PHP doesn't care about those. It completely ignores it. It just executes the code as it goes through. And that's great, because it allows us, then, to use white space to help us to create readable code. We can indent things, we can group things together so that it's really nice and easy for us to read and follow. We don't have to worry how the white space is going to be interpreted. Not all languages work that way, and that's one of the nice things about PHP. The other thing I want to point out to you is notice that the command ends with a semicolon. That's part of the way that PHP helps to know when one command is over and another one is starting.
Since white space doesn't matter. It needs to have some reliable way to know this command is finished and I'm ready to move on to the next command. So every line is going to need to end in a semicolon. So get used to it. It's a habit you're going to have to get in, when working with PHP is to always put semicolons at the end of your lines. And there's one last thing I want to show you before we move on. Let's just close this up, we'll save it and close it. And inside our index.html file that we created earlier, if you don't have it, you can just create one, a nice, simple file inside here, index.html. Let's open that up, and let's just drop a little bit of PHP in there.
So open our PHP tags. You see that it auto closed it for me as well at the same time, that's nice. Phpinfo with my parentheses and then the semicolon, right? So that's the same little bit of PHP code that I had. Let's save it. We'll close that up. And let's now go into our browser and let's load that file up. Localhost, Kevin Scopeland. Index.html, that's the file I'm loading up. I get hello from my user directory, I did not get the result of that php function, it has nothing to do with the fact that there was other text in there at all.
In fact, if we view Source under web developer, I can choose, Page Source. And you can see that it actually just output the code itself. It didn't actually do any PHP processing on it. So why is that? I gave it my starting PHP tag and my ending PHP tag. Why didn't it process it? While that's because the file ends in .HTML. It's important that we have both of those things. The file needs to end in .PHP. That tells Apache, hey, be on the lookout for PHP tags. There may be PHP tags in this document.
And then when it sees a PHP tag It turns on it's PHP module. Starts processing the PHP until we close the PHP section. So it's important that we have both of these, right? If we start naming our files ending in something besides PHP, it's not going to see it as being a PHP file and try and do any processing on it. Now that we have the fundamentals of how to use PHP tags to embed PHP code into our document. Lets start trying to use that with dynamic text.
- What is PHP?
- Installing and configuring PHP and MySQL
- Exploring data types
- Controlling code with logical expressions and loops
- Using PHP's built-in functions
- Writing custom functions
- Building dynamic webpages
- Working with forms and form data
- Using cookies and sessions to store data
- Connecting to MySQL with PHP
- Creating and editing database records
- Building a content management system
- Adding user authentication