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Concatenating and Assigning Shorthand
Lab: PHP String Building and Processing Basics
Video Runtime: 05:58
Often we need to build strings incrementally. A good example is with building an output HTML string pattern or even a message. You build part of it, do some processing, and then keep appending to the same string and assigning it back to the variable.
PHP gives you a shortcode operator for this process that turns:
$message = $message . 'Welcome ' . $first_name;
into:
$message .= 'Welcome ' . $first_name;
.
Both of these lines of code are processed the same way by the PHP interpreter. First, the strings are concatenated. Then the assignment is made to the variable $message
.
There’s a time to code and …. yup, that sums it up.
Episodes
Total Lab Runtime: 02:50:33
- 1 Lab Introductionfree 09:39
- 2 Embedding Variables in a Stringpro 15:16
- 3 Embedding Complex Variablespro 13:37
- 4 Concatenating Strings with a Dotpro 08:47
- 5 Concatenating and Assigning Shorthandpro 05:58
- 6 Formatting a String using Placeholderspro 15:16
- 7 Specifying Which Argument in a Formatted Stringpro 04:18
- 8 Has Substringpro 21:47
- 9 Replacing Substringspro 13:03
- 10 Get the String's Lengthpro 14:11
- 11 Character Set Encoding - It Matters!pro 11:42
- 12 Has Substring - for UTF-8pro 16:45
- 13 Replacing a UTF-8 Substringpro 05:56
- 14 Stripping out Characters or Entitiespro 10:51
- 15 Wrap it Upfree 03:27