Precedence and Associativity
This lesson discusses two important characteristics of arithmetic operators, i.e., precedence and associativity.
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Precedence #
Operator precedence determines which operator is performed first in an expression with more than one operators. Operator precedence in PHP is similar to that of regular arithmetic operators.
*
,/
,%
operators have equal precedence.+
,-
operators have equal precedence.*
,/
,%
have a higher precedence than+
,-
.
The operator with higher precedence is executed first in the expression.
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