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    Variables in PHP stand in for values that may vary, like the number of hours worked in a week. PHP variables start with a dollar sign and can be assigned values using assignment statements. Variables can be different data types like numbers or strings. Variables can be incorporated into strings by substituting their values. The poem example demonstrates how a variable can be reassigned to vary its value based on context. Constants are like variables but never change value and are denoted in all capital letters.

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    Variables in PHP stand in for values that may vary, like the number of hours worked in a week. PHP variables start with a dollar sign and can be assigned values using assignment statements. Variables can be different data types like numbers or strings. Variables can be incorporated into strings by substituting their values. The poem example demonstrates how a variable can be reassigned to vary its value based on context. Constants are like variables but never change value and are denoted in all capital letters.

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    Variables in PHP stand in for values that may vary, like the number of hours worked in a week. PHP variables start with a dollar sign and can be assigned values using assignment statements. Variables can be different data types like numbers or strings. Variables can be incorporated into strings by substituting their values. The poem example demonstrates how a variable can be reassigned to vary its value based on context. Constants are like variables but never change value and are denoted in all capital letters.

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    PHP Variables

    1
    What is a variable?
    • A variable is something that can be changed – a
    thing that can take on any value from a possible
    set of values.
    – For example, the number of hours someone works in
    a given week is a variable.
    • In math, a symbol is used in place of the variable
    to express a relationship between some quantity
    and the variable
    – For example, pay is one’s pay rate times the number
    of hours worked
    – Pay = PayRate * NumberHours

    2
    What is a variable? (Cont.)
    • So a variable is something that stands in for a
    quantity that might vary.
    • In programming, a variable can be thought of a
    referring to a memory location or set of memory
    locations. The value of the variable at any given
    time is then the contents of that memory location

    • As we said a variable can take on values from a


    set of possible values, the set of values is
    determined in part by the variable’s type.
    3
    Types
    • Unlike many other programming
    languages, PHP variables do not have to
    be “declared.” In such a case, a variable’s
    types tends to come from its context.
    – Standard types includes numbers (both
    integers and so-called floating point
    numbers that can have fraction parts.
    – Another standard type is a string,which can
    used for names of things or just about any
    text.
    4
    PHP variable rules
    • In PHP a variable starts with a dollar sign.
    • After that must come a letter or an
    underscore (no numbers).
    • After that can come letters or numbers.
    • There can be no spaces in the name.

    5
    Assignment
    • A variable is said to be assigned a value in an
    assignment statement. E.g.
    $NumberHours = 45;
    $WorkerFirstName = “Pete”;
    • The assignment statement should not be thought of as
    expressing mathematical equality rather it a set of
    instructions to evaluate the expression on the right hand
    side and give the variable on the left hand side the value
    that results. Thus
    $Counter = $Counter + 1;
    Makes sense as an assignment statement even though
    it makes no sense as mathematics.
    6
    Turning DateDisplay into a program
    with a variable.

    7
    Result of DateDisplay as variable.

    8
    Incorporating variables within strings.

    print "The date is $dateString.";


    • The above code also shows how variables
    are used in conjunction with strings in
    PHP.
    • Within the string (set of characters within
    quotes) that will appear literally (“as is”),
    the variable does not appear as is, rather
    its value is substituted into the string.
    9
    If you don’t want the variable value
    substituted in, then use single quotes.

    10
    Result of single quoted version of
    DateDisplay.

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    That variable doesn’t vary much.

    • Because these are PHP variables, all of


    their variation takes place on the server
    side (before the PHP preprocessed page
    is sent to the client).
    • PHP variables will ultimately give us
    interaction with the viewer of the page but
    always through a process in which
    information is sent back to the server.

    12
    The bells, bells, bells example.

    • Before consider variables determined by


    interaction with a user, let us consider one
    example in which the variable does vary.
    • In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem The Bells, the
    word “bells” appears over and over again.
    Let’s substitute in an image of bells in
    place of the word bells.
    – So far substitution (a lot of it) but not variation.

    13
    The bells, bells, bells example. (Cont.)

    • The first part of the poem talks about silver


    bells, the second about gold bells, and so
    on.
    • So in this example we will vary the image
    and the font color for each of the different
    parts.

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    Assigning the variables

    Writing some HTML

    A chunk of the poem, with


    the word bells replaced
    with the variable $bells.
    Note that the quotation
    can be spread out over
    many lines. (That would
    ne a no-no in C.)

    Re-assigning the variables


    15
    Where we left off.

    More of the same.

    16
    Silver bells turning
    into Golden bells as a
    result of our variable
    being reassigned.

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    Constants
    • If you really want a quantity that is going to
    take on a value and never change then
    what you want is called a constant.
    • Constants do not start with dollar signs.
    • By convention, constant names are in all
    capital letters.

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    Pi page (code)

    19
    Pi page (in browser)

    20
    PHP’s Global Constants

    The <pre> tag tells HTML to respect the


    white space of the text between the tags.

    The function print_r is for printing


    arrays – GLOBALS is not one
    constant but a set of constants

    21
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    Some of these
    constants tell
    one information
    about the PHP
    server – in this
    case the alpha.

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