LAB ACTIVITY 4: Construct String and Arrays in PHP
Environment.
Duration: 3 Hours
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this tutorial session, you should be able to:
1. Use strings function in PHP scripts.
2. Use loops and function in array statement.
a. Indexed Array.
b. Associative Array.
c. Multidimensional Array.
Hardware/ Software:
Code Editor (e.g: Notepad++, sublime, Dreamweaver), server bundle (e.g: XAMPP)
Activity 4A
Activity Outcome: Use strings function in PHP scripts.
i. Transform a string to uppercase letters.
ii. Transform a string to lowercase letters.
iii. Change a string's first character to uppercase.
iv. Change a string's first character of all the words to uppercase.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
//all uppercase letters
echo (strtoupper("web programming is awesome."))."<br>";
//all lowercase letters
echo (strtolower("WEB PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME."))."<br>";
//change a string's first character to uppercase
echo (ucfirst("web programming is awesome."))."<br>";
//change a string's first character of all the words to uppercase
echo (ucwords("web programming is awesome."))."<br>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Step 2: Save as Lab4a.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4B
Activity Outcome: Use strlen() function in PHP scripts.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
//Return the length of the string
echo strlen("WEB PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME");
?>
</body>
</html>
Step 2: Save as Lab4b.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
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Activity 4C
Activity Outcome: Use strstr() function in PHP scripts
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
//Find the first occurrence and return the rest of the string
echo strstr("WEB PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME","PROGRAMMING");
?>
</html>
</body>
Step 2: Save as Lab4c.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4D
Activity Outcome: Use strpos() function in PHP scripts
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
//Find the position of the first occurrence of word “ ” inside the string
echo strpos("I love web programming","web");
?>
</html>
</body>
Step 2: Save as Lab4d.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
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Activity 4E
Activity Outcome: Use substr() function in PHP scripts.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
// Positive numbers:
echo substr("I love web programming",0,10)."<br>";
echo substr("I love web programming",1,8)."<br>";
echo substr("I love web programming",0,5)."<br>";
echo "<br>";
// Negative numbers:
echo substr("I love web programming",0,-1)."<br>";
echo substr("I love web programmingd",-10,-2)."<br>";
echo substr("I love web programming",0,-6)."<br>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Step 2: Save as Lab4e.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4F
Activity Outcome: Use concatenate to combine two or more strings in PHP.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$string1 = 'Politeknik';
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$string2 = 'Balik';
$string3 = 'Pulau';
$name_str = $string1 . ' ' . $string2. ' '. $string3;
echo $name_str;
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4f.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4G
Activity Outcome: Use concatenate to combine using two Variables in PHP
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$var_1 = "Jom Masuk, ";
$var_2 = "Politeknik Balik Pulau";
$JOIN_VAR = $var_1." ".$var_2." ";
echo $JOIN_VAR;
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4g.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
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Activity 4H
Activity Outcome: Use indexed array in PHP statement.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
//creates an indexed array named and assigns elements to it
$subject = array("Web programming", "Database", "Design");
//prints a text containing the array values
echo "I like study ".$subject[0].", ".$subject[1]." And
".$subject[2].".";
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4h.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4I
Activity Outcome: Use associative array in PHP statement.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$credit= array("Web"=>"3", "Database"=>"4", "Project"=>"6");
echo "Credit hour for Web is " . $credit['Web'] . " hours.";
echo "<br>";
echo "Credit hour for Database is " .$credit['Database']. "
hours.";
echo "<br>";
echo "Credit hour for Project is " .$credit['Project']. "
hours.";
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4i.php to the document root and browse it.
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Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4J
Activity Outcome: Use multidimensional array in PHP statement.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$credit = array
(array("Web",3),array("Database",4),array("Project",6));
echo $credit[0][0].": Credit Hours= ".$credit[0][1].".<br>";
echo $credit[1][0].": Credit Hours= ".$credit[1][1].".<br>";
echo $credit[2][0].": Credit Hours= ".$credit[2][1].".<br>";
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4j.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
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Activity 4K
Activity Outcome: Use for loops and function in array statement.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$subject[0] = "Web";
$subject[1] = "Database";
$subject[2] = "Project";
for ($x = 0; $x<count($subject); $x++)
{
echo $subject[$x], "<br>" ;
}
?>
Step 2: Save as Lab4k.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
Activity 4L
Activity Outcome: Use foreach loops and function in array statement.
Procedure:
Step 1: Open a PHP Editor and type the following code:
<?php
$subject = array("Web"=>"3", "Database"=>"4", "Project"=>"6");
foreach($subject as $x => $val)
{
echo "$x = $val<br>";
}
?>
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Step 2: Save as Lab4l.php to the document root and browse it.
Step 3: Write the output and explain your observation.
