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Beginning PHP 5.3
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Beginning PHP 5.3

by Matt Doyle
October 2009
Beginner
836 pages
19h 37m
English
Wrox
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Appendix A. Solutions to Exercises

Exercise Solution

The trick here is to make a second call to date(), passing in the appropriate characters to display the current date. Here's how you might write the script (including comments where appropriate):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Hello</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="common.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
   <h1>
<?php

// Get the current time in a readable format
$currentTime = date( "g:i:s a" );

// Get the current date in a readable format
$currentDate = date( "M j, Y" );

// Display greeting, time and date to the visitor
echo "Hello, world! The current time is $currentTime on $currentDate";

?>
    </h1>
  </body>
</html>

Exercise 1 Solution

Write a PHP script such as this:

<?php
$x = 5;
$x = $x + 1;
$x += 1;
$x++;
echo $x;
?>

Exercise 2 Solution

Write a PHP script such as this:

<?php
$x = 3;
$y = 4;
echo "Test 1 result: " . ($x == $y) . "<br />";
echo "Test 2 result: " . ($x > $y) . "<br />";
echo "Test 3 result: " . ($x <= $y) . "<br />";
echo "Test 4 result: " . ($x != $y) . "<br />";
?>

Exercise 1 Solution

You could write this script many ways. The following solution creates a for loop to count the numbers, then uses the ? (ternary) operator and a switch construct to determine if each number is odd, even, or prime.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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