PHP Questions

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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?

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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.

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