PHP Skills Tests

Operator precedence

PHP's operator precedence.

Associativity	Operators	Additional information
non-associative	clone new	clone and new
left	[	array()
right	**	arithmetic
right	++ -- ~ (int) (float) (string) (array) (object) (bool) @	types and increment/decrement

Associativity

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Hexidecimal values

echo 0x500;
1280

This is hexidecimal notation. The value is calculated 0 * 1 = 0 + 0 * 16 = 0 + 5 * 256 = 1280.

Bit shifting

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is_numeric()

• Valid values: "200", ".25e4", "20,2"
• Invalid values: "$200"

Magical constants

Magical constants are constants that change value depending on where in the code they are placed.

The magical constants in PHP are

• __LINE__
• __FILE__
• __DIR__
• __FUNCTION__
• __CLASS__
• __TRAIT__
• __METHOD__
• __NAMESPACE__