Declare Variable in PHP

How to define / declare a variable in PHP?

Explanation

Variables are a temporary storage memory which contains some value.
Rules for declaring PHP variables :

  • Variables must start with $ sign, followed by a name.

  • It can start with a letter or an underscore character

  • But it cannot starts with a number

  • It can contain only alpha-numeric characters and underscores (like A-z, 0-9, and _, no spaces).

  • Use assignment operator (=) to assign a value to a variable.

  • PHP variables are case-sensitive(where $name and $Name are different cases here)


Example




<?php
$name = 'My First Variable in PHP';
$Name = 'hscripts';
echo $name."".$Name;
?>


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