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I was browsing the Sitepoint forum today and somebody raised this question - is it better to use ‘and’ or ‘&&’ as a logical operator in PHP?

In most cases, they evaluate the same way. For example, these two statements are equivalent.

if ($x && $y) { ... }
if ($x and $y) { ... }

So what’s the difference?
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While browsing through dZone the other day, I stumbled on this article - 40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmer.

While I don’t agree with all of the author’s points, it’s an interesting list of php coding habits to avoid - but that most of us tend to pick up anyway. Here’s a list of my five biggest pet peeves.
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Browsing through DZone, I stumbled on an interesting illustration - the Programmer’s Food Pyramid.

The Pyramid illustrates the different activities that someone generally engages in while learning to program. While looking at the pyramid, I thought, “Do I do all these things?”
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