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Understanding PHP String Literals and Operations
Where to find tutorials for PHP String Literals and Operations? A collection of tutorials on PHP string literals, operations and conversion. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on single-quoted strings, double-quoted strings, string elements, concatenation, converting values to st...
2016-10-13, ∼2378🔥, 0💬

Finding a Given Value in an Array in PHP
How To Find a Specific Value in an Array in PHP? There are two functions can be used to test if a value is defined in an array or not: array_search($value, $array) - Returns the first key of the matching value in the array, if found. Otherwise, it returns false. in_array($value, $array) - Returns tr...
2017-01-21, ∼2363🔥, 0💬

PHP Built-in Functions for Strings
Where to find tutorials and answers to frequently asked questions for PHP Built-in Functions for Strings? A collection of frequently asked questions on manipulating strings in PHP. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on string functions including strlen, trim, substr, chop, strpos, st...
2016-10-13, ∼2349🔥, 0💬

Merging Two Arrays into a Single Array in PHP
How To Merge Values of Two Arrays into a Single Array in PHP? You can use the array_merge() function to merge two arrays into a single array. array_merge() appends all pairs of keys and values of the second array to the end of the first array. Here is a PHP script on how to use array_merge(): &l...
2017-01-11, ∼2343🔥, 0💬

Converting Numbers to Strings in PHP
How To Convert Numbers to Strings? In a string context, PHP will automatically convert any numeric value to a string. Here is a PHP script examples: &lt;?php print(-1.3e3); print("\n"); print(strlen(-1.3e3)); print("\n"); print("Price = $" . 99.99 . "\n"); print(1 . " + " . 2 . " = " . 1+2 . "\n...
2016-10-13, ∼2342🔥, 0💬

Reading One Character from a File in PHP
How To Read One Character from a File in PHP? If you have a text file, and you want to read the file one character at a time, you can use the fgetc() function. It reads the current character, moves the file pointer to the next character, and returns the character as a string. If end of the file is r...
2016-12-02, ∼2337🔥, 0💬

Replacing Characters in a String in PHP
How To Replace a Group of Characters by Another Group? While processing a string, you may want to replace a group of special characters with some other characters. For example, if you don't want to show user's email addresses in the original format to stop email spammer collecting real email address...
2016-10-13, ∼2328🔥, 0💬

Order of Array Values in PHP
How the Values Are Ordered in an Array in PHP? PHP says that an array is an ordered map. But how the values are ordered in an array? The answer is simple. Values are stored in the same order as they are inserted like a queue. If you want to reorder them differently, you need to use a sort function. ...
2017-01-29, ∼2324🔥, 0💬

Using MySQL Command Line Interface in PHP
How To Use MySQL Command Line Interface in PHP? MySQL server comes with a command line interface, which will allow you to operate with the server with SQL statements and other commands. To start the command line interface, you can run the \mysql\bin\mysql program. The tutorial exercise below shows y...
2016-10-22, ∼2308🔥, 0💬

Function Returns Data by Value in PHP
How Values Are Returned from Functions? in PHP? If a value is returned from a function, it is returned by value, not by reference. That means that a copy of the value is return. Here is a PHP script on how values are returned from a function: &lt;?php $favor = "vbulletin"; function getFavor() { ...
2016-12-08, ∼2294🔥, 0💬

Function with Undefined Number of Arguments in PHP
How To Define a Function with Any Number of Arguments? in PHP? If you want to define a function with any number of arguments, you need to: Declare the function with no argument. Call func_num_args() in the function to get the number of the arguments. Call func_get_args() in the function to get all t...
2016-12-04, ∼2291🔥, 0💬

Joining Array Values into a Single String in PHP
How To Join Multiple Strings Stored in an Array into a Single String in PHP? If you multiple strings stored in an array, you can join them together into a single string with a given delimiter by using the implode() function. Here is a PHP script on how to use implode(): &lt;?php $date = array('0...
2017-01-05, ∼2288🔥, 0💬

Retrieving Directory Name from File Path Name in PHP
How To Get the Directory Name out of a File Path Name in PHP? If you have the full path name of a file, and want to get the directory name portion of the path name, you can use the dirname() function. It breaks the full path name at the last directory path delimiter (/) or (\), and returns the first...
2016-11-20, ∼2278🔥, 0💬

Taking a Substring in PHP
How To Take a Substring from a Given String? If you know the position of a substring in a given string, you can take the substring out by the substr() function. Here is a PHP script on how to use substr(): &lt;?php $string = "beginning"; print("Position counted from left: ".substr($string,0,5)."...
2016-10-13, ∼2275🔥, 0💬

Verifying PHP Installation
How To Verify Your PHP Installation? PHP provides two execution interfaces: Command Line Interface (CLI) and Common Gateway Interface (CGI). If PHP is installed in the \php directory on your system, you can try this to check your installation: Run "\php\php -v" command to check the Command Line Inte...
2016-10-13, ∼2268🔥, 0💬

Local Variables in a Function in PHP
What Is the Scope of a Variable Defined in a Function? in PHP? The scope of a local variable defined in a function is limited with that function. Once the function is ended, its local variables are also removed. So you can not access any local variable outside its defining function. Here is a PHP sc...
2016-12-08, ∼2266🔥, 0💬

Understanding PHP Arrays and Their Basic Operations
Where to find tutorials in Understanding PHP Arrays and Their Basic Operations? A collection of tutorials to answer many frequently asked questions on basic understanding of PHP arrays. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on declaring and creating arrays, assigning and retrieving arra...
2016-10-15, ∼2263🔥, 0💬

PHP Configuration Setting File
Where Are PHP Configuration Settings Stored? PHP stores configuration settings in a file called php.ini in PHP home directory. You can open it with any text editor to your settings.     ⇒ Running a PHP Script ⇐ Verifying PHP Installation ⇑ Downloading and Installing PHP ⇑⇑ PHP Tutorials
2016-10-13, ∼2257🔥, 0💬

Special Characters in Double-Quoted Strings in PHP
What Are the Special Characters You Need to Escape in Double-Quoted Stings? There are two special characters you need to escape in a double-quote string: the double quote (") and the back slash (\). Here is a PHP script example of double-quoted strings: &lt;?php echo "Hello world!"; echo "Tom sa...
2016-10-13, ∼2255🔥, 0💬

Testing If a Variable Is an Array in PHP
How To Test If a Variable Is an Array in PHP? Testing if a variable is an array is easy. Just use the is_array() function. Here is a PHP script on how to use is_array(): &lt;?php $var = array(0,0,7); print("Test 1: ". is_array($var)."\n"); $var = array(); print("Test 2: ". is_array($var)."\n"); ...
2016-10-15, ∼2253🔥, 0💬

Defining a User Function in PHP
How To Define a User Function? in PHP? You can define a user function anywhere in a PHP script using the function statement like this: "function name() {...}". Here is a PHP script example on how to define a user function: &lt;?php function msg() { print("Hello world!\n"); } msg(); ?&gt; Thi...
2016-12-28, ∼2242🔥, 0💬

Returning a Value from a Function in PHP
How To Return a Value Back to the Function Caller? in PHP? You can return a value to the function caller by using the "return $value" statement. Execution control will be transferred to the caller immediately after the return statement. If there are other statements in the function after the return ...
2016-12-24, ∼2238🔥, 0💬

Number of Rows Affected by a SQL Statement in PHP
How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement in PHP? There are two functions you can use the get the number of rows selected or affected by a SQL statement: mysql_num_rows($rs) - Returns the number of rows selected in a result set object returned from SELECT statement. mysql...
2016-10-20, ∼2232🔥, 0💬

Working with Directories and Files in PHP
Where to find tutorials on how to Work with Directories and Files in PHP? A collection of tutorials to answer many frequently asked questions on how to Work with Directories and Files in PHP. Topics included in this collection are: Creating a Directory in PHP Removing an Empty Directory in PHP Remov...
2016-11-24, ∼2228🔥, 0💬

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