Including files in PHP In PHP you can include one PHP file into another and can execute them on the server. For including files in PHP we can use following PHP functions: include() include_once() require() require_once() Let’s see above function in details To learn including files in PHP, let’s say there is a scenario where … Read more
HTTP Header: In the web application the communication you do with server are mainly through browsers. And browser in actual communicates with server using HTTP header. When you send a request for any web page to the server, a server returns the page along with some more information which is an HTTP header. This information contains the … Read more
GET and POST If we need any information from the web server or we want to submit any data to the web server using PHP, then we can achieve this task using two types of web server requests methods. Those are GET and POST. In the web application, we can send a request to the web … Read more
Arrays in PHP Definition: Arrays in PHP are the special type of variable which can store similar type of data/ values inside a single variable. An array is one of the basic data structures. We can access each array variable using a key known as an index of the array. An array index can be … Read more
PHP Strings Definition: PHP Strings are defined as the sequence of characters with a certain length. Example: “This is PHP Strings tutorial by codingkala.com”. Creating string variable: $str 1 = “This is strings in PHP tutorial”; $str2 = “123456”; //Numbers present inside double quotes will become strings of numbers. $str3 = ‘codingkala.com contains PHP and other programming … Read more
PHP Superglobal Variables In PHP web application all the data which includes HTTP request are automatically handled by certain variables. These are PHP Superglobal Variables. These variables collect the information automatically when any HTTP request occurs. The list of widely used PHP superglobal variables arrays are: 1. $_GET: $_GET collects all the … Read more
Scope of variables in PHP is termed as the access level of a variable within the code. There are four types of scopes present in PHP for variables. Local variable Global variable Static variable Function parameters Local Variables: Lets see local variable first in a function. function num1() { $num1 = 100; echo “Number -“.$num1; … Read more
What is a Function: PHP Functions are separate blocks of code which can be executed when gets called. A function can also accept optional parameters and after execution can return values to the caller. Let’s see PHP Functions in details. Syntax: <?php function showName($first_name, $last_name) { echo “This is full name – ” . $first_name … Read more
If you want to execute few lines of codes for a specific number of times repeatedly, then we will use PHP Programming Loops. We are having PHP Programming Loops types: while do…while for foreach There are two statements which are used in loops those are “continue” and “break“. 1. while loop: The first type in … Read more
As the name suggests, PHP decision-making statements are used to make decisions in programming. We can also say when there is a situation where certain conditions occur in our program when a program has to take a decision to choose any specific option, then we use decision-making statements or “conditional logic“. We have three PHP … Read more
