PHP: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Writing Functions

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In addition to using conditional constructs and statements such as if() and switch() as well as loops such as while() and for(), there’s another way you can control program flow—by using functions. Functions are sections of code you call from any other part of code (or even the function itself, which is known as recursion), which then perform one or more actions and then return.

   When functions return, they may also return a value back ...