PHP Questions

Question Take the following HTML form.

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What does the $count variable equal after each of these loops?

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What does the following code do?

define("MY_CONSTANT", array(1,2,3,4,5));

Answer

If this code is run it will produce the following error:

Warning: Constants may only evaluate to scalar values in test.php on line x

This is because only scalar values can be assigned to constants. A scalar value is any integer, float, string or boolean value and does not include arrays, objects or resources. Trying to set any non-scalar value as a constant will produce this error.

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What is the difference between these two lines of code and can you produce the background code used for them?

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Write a PHP script that will print out the following text in the correct diamond shape.

    *
   ***
  *****
 *******
*********
*********
 *******
  *****
   ***
    *

Answer

The diamond shape consists of 10 'levels' of stars. Each level consists of one or more stars and some whitespace that pushes the middle star into the middle of the line. Each line must also consist of an odd number of stars as an even number of starts can't have a middle star.

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The following code was executed.

<?php
class MyClass {
  private $foo = "bar";
}

$myObject = new MyClass();
echo $myObject;

Which produced the following error.

Catchable fatal error: Object of class MyClass could not be converted to string in test.php on line 7

Call Stack:
    0.0011     323736   1. {main}() /test.php:0

How can the code be simply changed to prevent this error and produce some form of result?

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What does the following snippet print and why?

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Given the following form:

<form action="index.php" method="post">
<input name="text" type="input" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
</form>

How would you get hold of the value of the input box after the form is submitted?

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Consider the following:

function doSomething(&$val) {
    $val++;
}

$a = 1;
doSomething($a);

What does the variable $a now equal?

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What does the following code snipped print?

$a = 5;
$b = 'a';
print $$b;