Php : Quick Tour

Presented By:
Abhinav Nath Gupta
IT Final Yr (0700113002)
 What is Php?

• General purpose scripting language.

• Server side Langauge.
• Easy Connectivity to databases, sockets,etc.
 Why Php?

• Easy to use.
• Easy to learn.
• Same in format as general hands on language
like C.
• Highly Flexible.
• Lightweight on Browser.
• Support OOP.
• Open source.
 Progress

• Comes to existence in 1994.

• Till now covered over 18 milliom domains.
• Internet Giants like Yahoo and google now
trusting on php.
 Using Php

• Php is very simple in application.

Sample Script….
<?php
echo ”Hiii”;
?>
Output:
Hiii
 Sample Continues...

Php runs on WAMP server (Windows , Apache MySql

and Php ) on version 5.2.
The Editor used is Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0.
• Echo(): Used to print the string given in the braces
enclosed with “” or ‘’.
• <?php ?> are the php tags that denotes start and end
of Php code.
 Embedding Php

• Php can be embedded with the HTML text.

• The embedding can be done using 4 types of
tags
 <?php ?> : php tags
 <% %>: ASP tags
 <? ?>: Short tags
 < script language = “Php”></script>: via script tags
 Php Variables & Constants
• Comments in php are like //.
• For multiline comments use/*” ”*/.
• U can save data directly to the php variables
without defining the data type, e.g,
• The variables in php starts with $.
• $a = 1;
• $a =1.23;
• $a = “hii”;
 Cont….

• $a = ‘hii’;
• The = is assignment operator in php.
• The default type is NULL in php.
• You can use ‘’ within “” but viceversa is
prohibited in php.
• Constants are defined using
define(string,value).
 Php Internal Data Types
• By default there are 8 data types:
• Boolean: holds true/false.
• Integer: holds integers.
• Float: holds real numbers.
• String: holds text strings.
• Array: hold array of data items.
• Object: user defined programming units.
 Cont…..
• Resource: holds data resource.
• NULL: holds Null values.
 Operators

There are basically 4 types of operators in php:

• Arithmetic operator(+,-,*,/,%,++,--)
• Assignment operator(=,+=,-=,%=,*=,/=)
• Comparison Operator(==,<=,>=,<>)
• Logical Operator(&&,||,!)
 Flow Control
Flow control is done by the use of loops. In php
there are 4 types of loops.
• For loop
for (init; condition; increment)
 {
  code to be executed;
 }
 Contd….
• While loop:
while (condition)
 {
  code to be executed;
 }
• Foreach loop:
foreach ($array as $value)
 {
  code to be executed;
 }
 Contd…..
• do-while loop:
do
 {
  code to be executed;
 }
while (condition);
 Strings In Php
The strings are the collection of alphabets and
are denoted by string variables,
<?php
$txt="Hello World";
echo $txt;
?>

• The concatenation operator(.) is only string

operator in php.
• String Functions
Php is rich in context of string functions.
 Contd…
Most commonly used ones are:
• Strlen()
• Strpos()
• Str_repeat()
• Sprintf()
• Strstr()
and many more………….
 Arrays in php
Php also supports arrays. In PHP, there are three
kind of arrays
• Numeric array - An array with a numeric index
• Associative array - An array where each ID key
is associated with a value
• Multidimensional array - An array containing
one or more arrays
 Contd….
• Numeric Arrays:index starts at 0
$cars=array("Saab","Volvo","BMW","Toyota");