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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Single characters can be extracted using array (square brace) syntax as well as curly brace syntax.

Single characters can be extracted using array (square brace) syntax as well as curly brace syntax.

What will be the output of the following code?

```
<?php
echo strpos("machinelearning", "learning");
?>
```

What will be the output of the following code?
<pre><code>&lt;?php
echo strpos(&quot;machinelearning&quot;, &quot;learning&quot;);
?&gt;
</code></pre>

The substr_replace function changes the actual string.

The substr_replace function changes the actual string.

What will the following code print?

```
<?php
$var1 = "Myname";
$var1 .= "is";
$var1 .= "James";
echo $var1;
?>
```

What will the following code print?
<pre><code>&lt;?php
$var1 = &quot;Myname&quot;;
$var1 .= &quot;is&quot;;
$var1 .= &quot;James&quot;;
echo $var1;
?&gt;
</code></pre>

Quick quiz to test your understanding of strings in PHP.

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

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