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Constants are identifiers which are used to store values that cannot be changed once initialized.

 

A constant doesn’t begin with a dollar ($) sign. The convention for constants is, the name of a constant should always be written in uppercase.

 


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We use the function define to create constants. Below example demonstrates creating and using constants in PHP:

<?php
   define("PI", 3.142);
   print(PI);
   $area = PI*10*10;  //Let radius be 10
   print("<br />Area of circle is: $area");
?>

 

A video tutorial on declaring and using constants in PHP:

 

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Suryateja Pericherla

Suryateja Pericherla, at present is a Research Scholar (full-time Ph.D.) in the Dept. of Computer Science & Systems Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Previously worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE at Vishnu Institute of Technology, India.

He has 11+ years of teaching experience and is an individual researcher whose research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Security, Network Security and Blockchain.

He is a member of professional societies like IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISCA. He published several research papers which are indexed by SCIE, WoS, Scopus, Springer and others.

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