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Definition of variables
⚑Types of variables
⚑Uses of variables
Variables are objects that exist in memory and can change continuously. We can imagine the memory as a street, with many residents in the street. Each resident will have his own house number, which is like an address in memory (a concept often mentioned in C language, we will not discuss it here). For one of the residents, we can say that it is Building 1 No. 1 can also be said to be Wang Xiaoming's home, using a name instead of an address. The number of people in Wang Xiaoming's family at a given time is a variable quantity. There may be 3 people at noon, only 1 person in the afternoon, and 5 people at night. Therefore, if we want to refer to a certain address in the memory, we can also call it A, or area. This is the variable.
Let’s demonstrate the declaration of variables in PHP.
Just use "$" to add a variable name, such as $a, $var_name.
Note three points when declaring variables in PHP:
. Variable names can only consist of English letters (A-Z, a-z), numbers (0-9) and underscores.
. Variable names in PHP are case-sensitive, that is, $VAR_NAME and $var_name are two different variables.
, a variable declaration or assignment must end with a semicolon (;).
The type specification of variables in PHP is very simple. Generally, there is no need to declare it with keywords, and it can be reflected in the form of assignment.
For example, declare an integer variable
$x=100;
Declare a character variable
$str="Iam a Chinese!";
Declare a Boolean variable
$bool=true;
Use variables in web pages.
For example, we want to display a sentence on the web page, "I am a Chinese", "I am 28 years old this year."