Happy Birthday PHP Script

29th October 2012 - 1 minute read time

Note: This post is over a year old and so the information contained here might be out of date. If you do spot something please leave a comment and I will endeavour to correct.

When posting happy birthday messages to developers over social media I like to write it in code, just to be geeky. The following code will print the happy birthday song using PHP.

<?php
$string = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) {
    $string .= "Happy birthday ";
    if ($i != 2) {
        $string .= "to you!\n";
    } else {
        $string .= "dear %s!\n";
    }
}
print sprintf($string, 'name');

This can be easily personalised by just changing the second parameter in the sprintf() function.

Happy Birthday

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Alternative:

function singHappyBirthday($nm) {
  for ($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) {
    printf("Happy birthday %s!\n", (2 === $i) ? "dear {$nm}" : "to you");
  }
}
singHappyBirthday('name');

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That's good! Thanks Stephan :)

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Recursive alternative :P

function singHappyBirthday($nm, $i = 0) {
 
  printf("Happy birthday %s!\n", (2 === $i) ? "dear {$nm}" : "to you");
  return $i === 3 || singHappyBirthday($nm, ++$i);
 
}
singHappyBirthday('name');

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Happiest wishes to you on this special day!!!

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Thank for the tips

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<?php
 
$string = '';
 
for ($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) {
 
    $string .= "Happy birthday ";
 
    if ($i != 2) {
 
        $string .= "to you!\n";
 
    } else {
 
        $string .= "dear %s!\n";
 
    }
 
}
 
print sprintf($string, 'name');

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