Author: Awais Farooq

By default, PHP uses the “call by value” mechanism for passing arguments to a function. When a function is called, the values of actual arguments are copied to the formal arguments of the function’s definition. During the execution of the function body, if there is any change in the value of any of the formal arguments,…

A function in PHP may be defined to accept one or more parameters. Function parameters are a comma-separated list of expressions inside the parenthesis in front of the function name while defining a function. A parameter may be of any scalar type (number, string or Boolean), an array, an object, or even another function. The…

Like most of the programming languages, a function in PHP is a block of organized, reusable code that is used to perform a single, related action. Functions provide better modularity for your application and a high degree of code reuse. PHP supports a structured programming approach by arranging the processing logic by defining blocks of…

It was not possible to declare a constant array before PHP version 5.6. From PHP 5.6 onwards, you can use the “const” keyword to declare a constant array. From PHP 7 onwards, constant arrays can also be formed with define() function. A constant array is an array which cannot be modified after it has been…

PHP Array Functions allow you to interact with and manipulate arrays in various ways. PHP arrays are essential for storing, managing, and operating on sets of variables. PHP supports simple and multi-dimensional arrays and may be either user created or created by another function. Installation There is no installation needed to use PHP array functions; they…

A multidimensional array is an array of arrays. In a PHP array, each element can be another array. If the array consists of values or key-value pairs with values being of singular scalar types, it is a one-dimensional array. If each element in an array is an array of one or more scalar values, it…

If each element in a PHP array is a key-value pair, such an array is called an associative array. In this type of array, each value is identified by its associated key and not an index. How to Declare an Associative Array in PHP? Both the approaches of declaring an array – the array() function and…

In PHP, the array elements may be a collection of key-value pairs or it may contain values only. If the array consists of values only, it is said to be an indexed array, as each element is identified by an incrementing index, starting with “0”. An indexed array in PHP may be created either by…

An array is a data structure that stores one or more data values having some relation among them, in a single variable. For example, if you want to store the marks of 10 students in a class, then instead of defining 10 different variables, it’s easy to define an array of 10 length. Arrays in…

Like the break statement, continue is another “loop control statement” in PHP. Unlike the break statement, the continue statement skips the current iteration and continues execution at the condition evaluation and then the beginning of the next iteration. The continue statement can be used inside any type of looping constructs, i.e., for, foreach, while or do-while loops. Like break, the continue keyword is also normally used conditionally. The following flowchart explains how the continue statement works…