PHP Reference

Quick Reference

The PHP public keyword is an access modifier, and marks a property or method as public (meaning it can be used by any code that can access the object).

<?php
class my_class {
    public $number = 0;
}

$obj = new my_class();
$obj -> number = 5;

echo 'The number is ' . $obj -> number;
?>

Output

The number is 5

PHP Notes:

  • When using PHP, single or double quotation marks are acceptable and work identically to one another; choose whichever you prefer, and stay consistent
  • Arrays count starting from zero NOT one; so item 1 is position [0], item 2 is position [1], and item 3 is position [2] … and so on

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