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PHP Programming: John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

This document discusses basic PHP programming concepts including PHP syntax, comments, variables, data types, operators, and control structures. It covers PHP tags, echo/print functions, commenting syntax, variable naming conventions, storing different data types in variables, concatenating and manipulating strings, basic math operations, floats, constants, if/else statements, while loops, for loops, and foreach loops. It provides examples of declaring variables, performing calculations, looping, and an exercise to demonstrate various concepts.

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PHP Programming: John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

This document discusses basic PHP programming concepts including PHP syntax, comments, variables, data types, operators, and control structures. It covers PHP tags, echo/print functions, commenting syntax, variable naming conventions, storing different data types in variables, concatenating and manipulating strings, basic math operations, floats, constants, if/else statements, while loops, for loops, and foreach loops. It provides examples of declaring variables, performing calculations, looping, and an exercise to demonstrate various concepts.

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PHP Programming

John Ryan B. Lorca Instructor I

PHP Programming
<?php ?>

Short syntax

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Echo/ Print function


echo

or & concatenation

Comments
It is good practice to enter comments
//single-line comments are like this #or like this /* Multiple line comments*/

Variables Names
In PHP variable starts with a $ Followed by letter or underscore Can contain letters, numbers, underscores, or dashes No spaces Case-sensitive are different as it is case sensitive

$student and $Student

Global variable global $student Superglobals Automatically available throughout all program $_GET $_POST $_Request $_COOKIES $_SESSION

Examples of Variable Names:


$employee $Employee $NicEmployee (camel case) $Nic_Employee $Nic-Employee (Not a good practice) $Employee3 $_employee (Not a good practice) $__employee (Not a good practice)
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Storing strings and numbers in variables

Strings:

Strings concatenate:

Strings function:

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Basic Math:

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Float

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Float

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Boolean and Null

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Constants

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IF statement
If (expression)
Statement;

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While Loop:
While (expression)
Statement;

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Same example with for Loop:


For (Initial; expression; end)

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Foreach Loop:

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Continue:

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Break:

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EXERCISE
Declare a variable myInteger and set it to 69 Declare myFloat and set it to 12.5 Get the sum, difference, product, quotient of myInteger and myFloat; display results Declare a variable myString and assign Hello World to myString Concatenate and hello Philippines Display myStringDisplay your full name N times with numbering, where Nis your age Display all the numbers from 1 to 10
If the number is odd, display the number If the number is even, display Im happy today!
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