Archive:PHP and MySQL Programming/PHP Syntax

PHP tags :

<??>

– Enclose php code

– Can be configured in the php.ini file to be anything (i.e. : <%%>)

– Embedded in normal HTML code

– Within php tags, statements are separated by ; .

– e.g. :

<?

print “Hello World\n”;

$date = date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”);

print “The date and time at the moment is $date”;

?>

<?=

– Used if you just want to print out the value of a variable

– e.g. : <?= $name ?>

prints out bobby.

– e.g. : <?= date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”) ?>

prints out 2005-11-09 19:40:05.

Commenting

#

– Comments out one line

– e.g. : echo “Hello”; # everything from the hash is commented out

– e.g. : # This entire line is commented out

//

– Works just as in Java and JavaScript

– Exactly the same as the #

/*....*/

– Comments out everything between the /* and the */

– e.g. : /*All of this is

commented out.

Even this line!*/

Variables

➢ Variables in PHP are denoted by the $ prefix.

e.g. : $a = “Hello World”; # this assigns the string “Hello World” to $a.

e.g. : $b = “$a, I'm Ralfe”; # this assigns “Hello World, I'm Ralfe” to $b.

e.g. : $b = $a.”, I'm Ralfe”; # exactly the same as the previous example.

➢ PHP supports dynamic variables.

e.g. : $c = “response”;

e.g. : $$c = “Hello Ralfe”; # this assigns “Hello Ralfe” to $response.

➢ PHP variables do not have to be declared ahead of time, nor do they require a type definition. PHP handles all data type conversions.

e.g. : $a = 4;

e.g. : $b = 12;

e.g. : print “The value of a if $a.”; # Uses a as a String.

e.g. : $c = $a + $b; # $a is now used as an Integer again.

➢ PHP supports boolean variables, which can be assigned either a one or a zero, or a true or false.

e.g. : $a = true;

e.g. : $b = 1;

e.g. : # $a and $b are the same thing!

e.g. : $c = false;

e.g. : $d = 0;

e.g. : # $c and $d are the same thing!

Operators

➢ Arithmetic Operators

$a = 4;

$b = 2;

// Addition: $a + $b = 6

// Subtraction: $a - $b = 2

// Multiplication: $a * $b = 8

// Division: $a / $b = 2

// Modulus: $a % $b = 0

// Increment: $a++

// Decrement: $a--

➢ Assignment Operators

$a = 4;

$b = $a;

// $b = 4;

➢ Comparison Operators

$a == $b // test if two values are equal

$a != $b // test if two values are not equal

$a < $b // test if the first value is less than the second

$a > $b // test if the first value is greater than the second

$a <= $b // test if the first value is less than or equal to the second

$a >= $b // test if the first value is greater than or equal to the second

Concatenation

$a = “Fill the halls “;

$b = “with poisoned ivy...“;

$c = $a . $b; # the '.' operator concatenates two variables.

// $c = “Fill the halls with poisoned ivy...”

Arrays

PHP supports both numerically indexed arrays as well as associative arrays.

$a = array(1, 2, 3, 4);

// $a[0] = 1;

// $a[1] = 2;

// $a[2] = 3;

// $a[3] = 4;

$b = array(“name” => ”Fred”, “age” => 30);

// $b['name'] = “Fred”;

// $b['age'] = 30;

Decision and Loop Statements

1. --- IF THEN ELSE statement ---

$a = 1; $b = 10; if ($a > $b) { echo “a is greater than b”; } else if ($a == $b){ echo “a is equal to b”; } else{ echo “a is not greater than b”; }

1. --- SWITCH statement ---

$a = 100; switch($a){ case(10): echo “The value is 10”; break; case(100): echo “The value is 100”; break; case(1000): echo “The value is 1000”; break; default: echo “Are you sure you entered in a valid number?”; }

1. --- FOR statement ---

$a = 10; for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++){

1. initialize $i ; while condition ; increment statement

print “$i”; } Page 4

1. --- FOREACH statement ---

$a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); foreach ($a as $val){ echo “$val”; }

1. --- WHILE statement ---

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)){ print $row[0]; }

1. --- DO WHILE statement ---

$i = 0;

1. Note that it might seem that $i will

do{

1. never be printed to the screen, but

print $i;

1. a DO WHILE loop always executes at

} while ($i >0);

1. least once!

FUNCTIONS function my_function($value){ if (!$value){ return 0; } else{ return ($value % 2); } } $a = 45; $ans = my_function($a);

Classes

class my_class { var $value1; var $value2; function set_value1($val){ $this->value1 = $val; } function set_value2($val){ if ($this->value1 > 0){ $this->value2 = $val; } else{ $this->value2 = 0; } } } $new_class = &new my_class; $new_class->set_value1(10); $new_class->set_value2(2);