The PHP Workshop

3. Control Statements

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to describe Boolean expressions; leverage logical operators to compose Boolean expressions; choose the right comparison operators within a control statement; describe branching and different looping techniques in PHP; apply branching with if…else, switch case, break, and continue statements; differentiate between bounded and unbounded loops; implement loops such as while, do…while, for, and foreach; and write a PHP script to create a movie listing application.

Introduction

Since PHP is a dynamically typed language where types are associated with data instead of variables, it's essential to understand the role that types play in the data operations landscape. In ...