Thursday, 10 January 2013

PHP is case sensitive

PHP is case sensitive

Yeah it is true that PHP is a case sensitive language. Try out following example:

<html>
<body>
<? $capital = 67;
print("Variable capital is $capital<br>");
print("Variable CaPiTaL is $CaPiTaL<br>");
?>
 </body>
</html>


This will produce following result:

Variable capital is 67
Variable CaPiTaL is

Statements are expressions terminated by semicolons: 
A statement in PHP is any expression that is followed by a semicolon (;).Any sequence of valid PHP statements that is enclosed by the PHP tags is a valid PHP program. Here is a typical statement in PHP, which in this case assigns a string of characters to a variable called $greeting:

$greeting = "Welcome to PHP!";

Expressions are combinations of tokens:
The smallest building blocks of PHP are the indivisible tokens, such as numbers (3.14159), strings (.two.), variables ($two), constants (TRUE), and the special words that make up the syntax of PHP itself like if, else, while, for and so forth

Braces make blocks:

Although statements cannot be combined like expressions, you can always put a sequence of statements anywhere a statement can go by enclosing them in a set of curly braces. Here both statements are equivalent:

if (3 == 2 + 1)
print("Good - I haven't totally lost my mind.<br>");
if (3 == 2 + 1)
{
print("Good - I haven't totally");
print("lost my mind.<br>");
}

Running PHP Script from Command Prompt: 

Yes you can run your PHP script on your command prompt. Assuming you have following content in test.php file

<?
php echo "Hello PHP!!!!!";
?>

Now run this script as command prompt as follows:

$ php test.php

It will produce following result:

Hello PHP!!!!!

Hope now you have basic knowledge of PHP Syntax.









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