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PHP Variables: PHP Variable: Declaring String, Integer, and Float

In PHP, variables are declared with a $ sign followed by the variable name. PHP is a loosely typed language so variable types do not need to be declared. Variables can store strings, integers, and floats, and basic math operations can be performed. Variable names are case-sensitive in PHP. Variables must start with a letter or underscore and cannot start with numbers or special characters.

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PHP Variables: PHP Variable: Declaring String, Integer, and Float

In PHP, variables are declared with a $ sign followed by the variable name. PHP is a loosely typed language so variable types do not need to be declared. Variables can store strings, integers, and floats, and basic math operations can be performed. Variable names are case-sensitive in PHP. Variables must start with a letter or underscore and cannot start with numbers or special characters.

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PHP Variables

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In PHP, a variable is declared using a $ sign followed by the variable name. Here, some imp
variables:

o As PHP is a loosely typed language, so we do not need to declare the data types of t
analyzes the values and makes conversions to its correct datatype.
o After declaring a variable, it can be reused throughout the code.
o Assignment Operator (=) is used to assign the value to a variable.

Syntax of declaring a variable in PHP is given below:

1. $variablename=value;

Rules for declaring PHP variable:

o A variable must start with a dollar ($) sign, followed by the variable name.
o It can only contain alpha-numeric character and underscore (A-z, 0-9, _).
o A variable name must start with a letter or underscore (_) character.
o A PHP variable name cannot contain spaces.
o One thing to be kept in mind that the variable name cannot start with a number or special
o PHP variables are case-sensitive, so $name and $NAME both are treated as different variab

PHP Variable: Declaring string, integer, and float


Let's see the example to store string, integer, and float values in PHP variables.

File: variable1.php

1. <?php
2. $str="hello string";
3. $x=200;
4. $y=44.6;
5. echo "string is: $str <br/>";
6. echo "integer is: $x <br/>";
7. echo "float is: $y <br/>";
8. ?>

Output:

string is: hello string


integer is: 200
float is: 44.6

PHP Variable: Sum of two variables


File: variable2.php

1. <?php
2. $x=5;
3. $y=6;
4. $z=$x+$y;
5. echo $z;
6. ?>

Output:

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PHP Variable: case sensitive


In PHP, variable names are case sensitive. So variable name "color" is different from Color, COLOR

File: variable3.php

1. <?php
2. $color="red";
3. echo "My car is " . $color . "<br>";
4. echo "My house is " . $COLOR . "<br>";
5. echo "My boat is " . $coLOR . "<br>";
6. ?>

Output:

My car is red
Notice: Undefined variable: COLOR in C:\wamp\www\variable.php on line 4
My house is
Notice: Undefined variable: coLOR in C:\wamp\www\variable.php on line 5
My boat is
PHP Variable: Rules
PHP variables must start with letter or underscore only.

PHP variable can't be start with numbers and special symbols.

File: variablevalid.php

1. <?php
2. $a="hello";//letter (valid)
3. $_b="hello";//underscore (valid)
4.
5. echo "$a <br/> $_b";
6. ?>

Output:

hello
hello

File: variableinvalid.php

1. <?php
2. $4c="hello";//number (invalid)
3. $*d="hello";//special symbol (invalid)
4.
5. echo "$4c <br/> $*d";
6. ?>

Output:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '4' (T_LNUMBER), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE
or '$' in C:\wamp\www\variableinvalid.php on line 2

PHP: Loosely typed language


PHP is a loosely typed language, it means PHP automatically converts the variable to its correct d

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