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About PHP
- PHP is a server scripting language.
- PHP is an acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”
Prerequisites to start PHP
- Webserver, PHP, MySQL. If we install xampp, wamp or laragon we will get all in one!
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
PHP Functions
There are two types of functions which are:
Built in functions: PHP has more than 1000 built in functions.
For example: In the below md5 function will be used to convert the string into md5 hash encrypted data
<?php $str = "Nazim"; echo md5($str); ?>
User defined function:
Anonyms functions:
// Assigning an anonymous function to a variable
$add = function ($a, $b) {
return $a + $b;
};
// Using the anonymous function
$result = $add(8, 9); // This will result in $result containing 17
echo $result; // Output: 17