Working with Strings - PHPPHP has been taking the web by storm because of its power and versatility. If you'd like to add PHP-based applications to your web site, keep reading. This series of articles will teach you the language from scratch.
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Now that we know how to print a string and create variables to hold strings, let's look at some ways to manipulate strings. <html> <body> <?php $first_name = "James"; $last_name = "Payne"; echo $first_name . " " . $last_name; concatenation ?> </body> </html> The above code is called concatenation and is used to join two things together (in this case, two words). The above code prints out the text: James Payne You will note the " " places a space between the words. There are a ton of functions that let you goof around with strings in PHP, and I will write a tutorial on them in the near future. In addition to toying with strings, you can also manipulate numeric data as well. To do this we use operators. Below is a giant list of the different operators available to you in PHP.
Well that's all the time we have for this tutorial. In our next episode, we will discuss how to use the various operators to further manipulate our data. If we have time we discuss Conditional Statements as well. Till then...
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