Operators in PHP

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Contents

1 Introduction
2 Arithmetic Operators
3 Assignment Operators
4 Increment/Decrement Operators
5 Relational or Comparison Operators
6 Logical Operators
7 String Operators
8 Array Operators

Introduction

Operators are used in expressions to perform operations on operands. There are several operators supported by PHP which are categorized into following categories:

Arithmetic operators
Assignment operators
Comparison operators
Increment/Decrement operators
Logical operators
String operators
Array operators

Arithmetic Operators

PHP arithmetic operators are used along with numbers to perform operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication etc. Below is a list of arithmetic operators:

Assignment Operators

PHP assignment operators are used in assignment expressions to store the value of expression in to a variable. Below is a list of assignment operators:

Increment/Decrement Operators

The increment/decrement operators are used to increment the value of variable by 1 or decrement the value of variable by 1. The increment operator is ++ and decrement operator is –.

Relational or Comparison Operators

PHP comparison operators are used to compare two values and are frequently seen in Boolean expressions. Below is a list of comparison operators:

Logical Operators

PHP logical operators are used find the Boolean value of multiple conditional expressions. Below is a list of logical operators:

String Operators

PHP provides two operators which are used with strings only. They are listed below:

Array Operators

Below is a list of operators which are used with arrays:

Suryateja Pericherla

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