Iain Tench

Iain Tench has worked in the IT industry for 30 years as a programmer, project manager (Prince2 Practitioner), consultant, and teacher. As a project manager, he specialized in integration projects mainly involving payment systems in the financial sector. He now teaches and has acquired a Masters degree in Internet Systems Development as well as a teaching qualification. Iain's specialized areas of teaching is web technologies, mainly programming in a variety of languages, HTML, CSS and database integration. He's also written a book about Dreamweaver CS3 for Hodder Education.

Iain's articles

Form Validation with PHP

PHP

By Iain Tench, Matthew Setter, January 01, 2021

Need to collect data through a web form? Learn the basics of how to set up PHP to collect user-submitted data that you can then store or send via email.

Working with Files in PHP

PHP

By Iain Tench, April 23, 2012

Read Working with Files in PHP and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Defining and Using Functions in PHP

PHP

By Iain Tench, November 30, 2011

Read Defining and Using Functions in PHP and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

PHP Variables

PHP

By Iain Tench, September 12, 2011

Variables are a key feature of any programming language. Learn about PHP variables and how to declare them, assign values to them, and output their values.