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PHP Functions

PHP function is a piece of code that can be reused many times. It can take input as argument list and return value. There are thousands of built-in functions in PHP.

Function are self content independent block of statement. which is used to perform some specific task.

In PHP, we can define Conditional functionFunction within Function and Recursive function also.


Advantage of PHP Functions

Code Re-usability: PHP functions are defined only once and can be invoked many times, like in other programming languages.

Less Code: It saves a lot of code because you don’t need to write the logic many times. By the use of function, you can write the logic only once and reuse it.

Easy to understand: PHP functions separate the programming logic. So it is easier to understand the flow of the application because every logic is divided in the form of functions.

PHP User-defined Functions

We can declare and call user-defined functions easily. Let’s see the syntax to declare user-defined functions.

Syntax:

File: function.php

Output:

PHP Function Arguments

We can pass the information in PHP function through arguments which is separated by comma.

PHP supports Call by Value (default), Call by ReferenceDefault argument values and Variable-length argument list.

 

Let’s see the example to pass single argument in PHP function.

File: functionarg.php

 

 

Output:

Let’s see the example to pass two argument in PHP function.

File: functionarg2.php

Output:

 

PHP Call By Reference

Value passed to the function doesn’t modify the actual value by default (call by value). But we can do so by passing value as a reference.

By default, value passed to the function is call by value. To pass value as a reference, you need to use ampersand (&) symbol before the argument name.

Let’s see a simple example of call by reference in PHP.

File: functionref.php

Output:

PHP Function: Default Argument Value

We can specify a default argument value in function. While calling PHP function if you don’t specify any argument, it will take the default argument. Let’s see a simple example of using default argument value in PHP function.

File: functiondefaultarg.php

Output:

PHP Function: Returning Value

Let’s see an example of PHP function that returns value.

File: functiondefaultarg.php

Output:

 

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