Question Bank in line with PHP Programming with MySQL The Web Technologies Series,Gosselin,2e

Chapter 1: Getting Started with PHP




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1. All Web pages containing PHP code must have an extension of .php.


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2. The source code for PHP can be viewed in the client browser.


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3. It is a good practice to name all Web files with a .php extension even if they contain no PHP
code.


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4. In PHP, you are limited to ten (10) code blocks in a single page.


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5. Using the standard method of writing PHP blocks, the <?php and ?> are used to begin and
end a code block.


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6. The primary purpose of a semicolon in PHP is to identify the end of a line.


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, 7. In PHP, each statement must be placed on a separate line.


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8. When using the <script> element, a value of “php” must be assigned to the type attribute.


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9. When using multiple arguments in a function, you must separate the arguments with a comma.


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10. Both the echo and print statements return a value of 1 if successful and 0 if not successful.


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11. A text string can be contained in either double or single quotation marks.


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12. A line comment must be placed at the end of the line to which the comment refers.


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13. $_ABC1 is a valid variable identifier.


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,14. In PHP, you can declare a variable without assigning a value to it.


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15. When you pass a variable name to the echo statement, you must enclose the variable name in
double quotation marks.


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16. If you use a variable name in a text string enclosed by single quotation marks, the name of the
variable will display.


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17. Constant names, like variable names, must begin with a $.


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18. Constant names are always case sensitive.


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19. Data types that can be assigned only a single value are called primitive types.


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20. When you assign a NULL value to a variable, you ensure that the variable does not contain any
data.


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, 21. Arrays and objects are examples of the primitive data type.


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22. In PHP programming, you can only use TRUE or FALSE to indicate Boolean values.


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23. Array names are often referred to with the array operators [ and ] at the end of the name to
clearly define them as arrays.


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24. The numbering of elements within an array starts with an index number of one (1).


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25. The values assigned to different array elements of the same array can be of different data types.


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26. A unary operator requires an operand before or after the operator.


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27. The modulus operator returns the remainder left from the division of two integers.


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