Learn PHP basics with hands-on practice in hello world in PHP, variables in PHP, functions in PHP, arrays in PHP, PHP inheritance, PHP exceptions, and more.

This interactive course introduces you to the fundamentals of PHP programming, one of the most widely used languages in web development. Starting with a simple hello world in PHP, you’ll explore the basics, including PHP output, variables in PHP, and PHP data types. You’ll also learn about PHP constants, arithmetic operators, comparison operators, logical operators, and assignment operators.

The course progresses into conditional statements in PHP, PHP switch, and various loops such as PHP for loop, PHP while loop, and more. You will then dive deeper into functions in PHP, understand PHP variable scope, and learn PHP pass by reference or value. Additionally, you’ll gain a working knowledge of strings in PHP, PHP string operations, and handling arrays in PHP, including PHP multidimensional arrays.

In the advanced sections, you’ll explore classes in PHP, inheritance, constructors, and destructors, handling PHP exceptions with PHP throw and catch exceptions.

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# Introduction

A *constructor* is used to initialize *member* variables when an *object* is declared. It is automatically called at the time when the *object* of the *class* is declared.

>**Note:** A *constructor* is a *member* function that is usually `public`.

Also keep in mind that unlike other *methods* defined inside a class, a constructor **cannot** *return* a value.

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# Constructor Declaration

Classes can define a special `__construct()` *method*, which is executed as part of object creation. 

Let's take a look at how it is defined:


This lesson introduces the concept of constructors, destructors, how to declare and call them.

PHP Basics

PHP Variables

PHP Operators

PHP Conditional Statements

PHP Loops

PHP Functions

PHP Strings

PHP Arrays

PHP Assessment 1

PHP Classes

Exception Handling in PHP

PHP Assessment 2

Constructors & Destructors

Introduction