Chapter 1. Create a User Profile System and use the Null Coalesce Operator
To begin this chapter, let's check out the new null coalesce in PHP 7. We'll also learn how to build a simple profiles page with listed users that you can click on, and create a simple CRUD-like system which will enable us to register new users to the system and delete users for banning purposes.
We'll learn to use the PHP 7 null coalesce operator so that we can show data if there is any, or just display a simple message if there isn't any.
Let's create a simple UserProfile
class. The ability to create classes has been available since PHP 5.
A class in PHP starts with the word class
, and the name of the class:
class UserProfile { private $table = 'user_profiles'; } }
We've ...
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