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An excellent alternative method to assigning string variables is to use the heredoc syntax. If you are assigning long strings of text with characters that need escaping, try this: To me, it looks a bi...

If you want to reseed your primary key (i.e. change the value of the next primary key generated), you can do it like this: This is useful for starting a new site, and you don’t want to leave hints tha...

To find out the full details of any given variable in php, simply use var_dump() as follows: {code type=php} var_dump($variable); {/code} This