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1 Personal Home Page (PHP)
Introduction to PHP: Declaring variables, data types, arrays, strings, For Micro Notes by the
operators, expressions, control structures, functions, Reading data from web Students…………..
form controls like text boxes, radio buttons, lists etc., Handling File Uploads.
Connecting to database (MySQL as reference), executing simple queries,
handling results, Handling sessions and cookies
File Handling in PHP: File operations like opening, closing, reading,
writing, appending, deleting etc. on text and binary files, listing directories.
Introduction
PHP is a server-side scripting language. PHP processor is open source and can
be downloaded without any cost. PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, a
member of the Apache Group, in 1994. Most of the binaries were written in C.
Lerdorf called the initial PHP as Personal Home Page. But later it was changed
to Hypertext PreProcessor.
What is PHP? What are the common uses of PHP? (2 marks May
2017)
PHP stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. Earlier it was called Personal
Home Page.PHP is a server side scripting language that is embedded in HTML.
The default file extension for PHP files is ".php".PHP supports all the databases
that are present in the market.PHP applications are platform independent. PHP
application developed in one OS can be easily executed in other OS also.
Common uses of PHP
PHP performs system functions, i.e. from files on a system it can create,
open, read, write, and close them.
PHP can handle forms, i.e. gather data from files, save data to a file, thru
email we can send data, return data to the user.
We add, delete, modify elements within wer database using PHP.
Access cookies variables and set cookies.
Using PHP, we can restrict users to access some pages of wer website.
It can encrypt data.
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Creating a first PHP Page
PHP scripts can be embedded in a (X)HTML document or written separately
without any (X)HTML markup. In both cases, the file must be saved with the
extension .php.
Creating a First PHP Page:
Any PHP script (code) must be enclosed within the PHP tags which are
represented using
<?php (opening tag) and ?> (closing tag). Let's consider a simple PHP script
which prints "Hello World" on the web document:
<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>
Running Wer first PHP Page:
To run a PHP script, a web server must be installed and started. Well known
web servers are Apache Http Server and Microsoft's Internet Information
Service (IIS).
After a web server is installed, place the PHP file hello.php in the web server's
root directory and start the web server. Now, open a web browser like chrome,
firefox or internet explorer and type the following URL in the address bar:
http://localhost/hello.php or
http://localhost:80/hello.php
80 is the port at which the web server listens for incoming HTTP requests. The
output of the PHP script is:
Mixing HTML and PHP
<html> // Page starts with standard <html>
<head> <title> section.
<head>
<title>
Using PHP and HTML together
</title>
</head>
<body> // <body> section
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<h1> Using PHP and HTML together</h1> //Contain <h1> header and some
text
Here is PHP info: </br></br>
<?php // <?php starts a PHP section
phpinfo(); //PHP function phpinfo(); displays information
about the PHP //installation, Every PHP
statement ends with semicolon
?>
</body>
</html>
When this page is run by PHP engine on the server HTML will be passed
through browser and PHP part will be executed
Printing Some Text
Output Functions in PHP
In PHP there are two basic ways to get output: echo and print.
The PHP echo Statement
The echo() function outputs one or more strings.
The echo statement can be used with or without parentheses: echo or echo().
Syntax: echo(strings)
Example
<?php
echo "Hello world!";
echo ("Hello world!");
?>
PHP print() Function :
Syntax: print(strings)
Example:
<?php
print "Hiee!";
?>
echo and print are used to output data to the screen. The differences are small:
echo has no return value while print has a return value of 1 so it can be used in
expressions. echo can take multiple parameters (although such usage is rare)
while print can take one argument. echo is marginally faster than print.
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PHP printf() Function
The printf() function outputs a formatted string.
Syntax : printf(format,arg1,arg2,arg++)
Possible format values: %d - Signed decimal number, %f - Floating-point
number, %s – String
Example:
Using the format value %f:
<?php
$number = 123;
printf("%f",$number);
?>
Example 2
<?php
$number = 9; $str = "Beijing";
printf("There are %u million bicycles in %s.",$number,$str);
?>
Adding comments to PHP code
// This is single-line comment
# This is also a single-line comment
/*
This is a multiple-lines comment block
that spans over multiple
lines
*/
Working with Variables
Variables :
A variable is a named location in memory to store data temporarily. PHP is
dynamically typed language. So, there is no need for mentioning the data type
of a variable. The type will be detected automatically based on the value
assigned to the variable. A variable can be created as shown below:
$var1 = 10;
A variable which is not assigned a value contains NULL. In expressions
containing numbers, NULL will be coerced to 0 and in case of strings, NULL
will be coerced to an empty string. A variable can be printed as shown below:
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print("Value of var1 is: $var1");
A variable can be checked if it contains a value other than NULL by using the
function IsSet. This function returns TRUE if the variable contains a non-
NULL value and FALSE if it contains a NULL value.
Storing Data in Variables
PHP variables can hold numbers or strings of characters. We can store
information in variables with an assignment operator/ single equal sign (=).
<?php
$name="ACE";
$age = 21;
$price = 2.55;
$number = -2;
?>
After the execution of the statements above, the variable $name will hold the
value ACE, the variable $age will hold the value 21, the variable $price will
hold the value 2.55, and the variable $number will hold the value -2.
Creating Variables
Variables are "containers" that are used for storing information.
In PHP, a variable starts with the $ sign, followed by the name of the variable.
What are the rules for naming a variable in PHP?
Every variable starts with the $ sign, followed by the name of the variable.
A variable name must start with a letter or the underscore character(can’t start
with a number)
A variable name can only contain alpha-numeric characters and underscores
(A-z, 0-9, and _ )
Variable names are case-sensitive ($age and $AGE are two different variables)
1) $name 2) $_name 3) $1name 4) $_1name
Creating constants
Constants are identifiers which are used to store values that cannot be changed
once initialized. A constant doesn't begin with a dollar ($) sign. The convention
for constants is, the name of a constant should always be written in uppercase.
We use the function define to create constants. Below example demonstrates
creating and using constants in PHP:
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<?php
define("PI", 3.142); print(PI);
$area = PI*10*10; //Let radius be 10 print("<br />Area of circle is: $area");
?>
Operators and Flow Control
Data Types
PHP provides four scalar types namely Boolean, integer, double and string
and two compound types namely array and object and two special types namely
resource and NULL.
PHP has a single integer type, named integer. This type is same as long type
in C. The size of an integer type is generally the size of word in the machine. In
most of the machines that size will be 32 bits.
PHP's double type corresponds to the double type in C and its successors.
Double literals can contain a decimal point, an exponent or both. An exponent
is represented using E or e followed by a signed integer literal. Digits before
and after the decimal point are optional. So, both .12 and 12. are valid double
literals.
String is a collection of characters. There is no special type for characters in
PHP. A character is considered as a string with length 1. String literals are
represented with single quotes or double quotes. In a string literal enclosed in
single quotes, escape sequences and variables are not recognized and no
substitutions occurs. Such substitution is known as interpolation. In string
literals enclosed in double quotes, escape sequence and variables are
recognized and corresponding action is taken.
The only two possible values for a Boolean type are TRUE and FALSE both of
which are case-insensitive. Integer value 0 is equal to Boolean FALSE and
anything other than 0 is
equal to TRUE. An empty string and string "0" are equal to Boolean FALSE
and remaining other strings are equal to TRUE. Only double value equal to
Boolean FALSE is 0.0.
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PHP Maths Operators
Operator Name Example Description
+ Addition $x + $y Sum of x and y
- Subtraction $x - $y Difference of x and y
* Multiplication $x * $y Product of x and y
/ Division $x / $y Quotient of x divided by y
% Modulus $x % $y Remainder of x divided by y
** Exponentiation$x ** $y Result of x raised to the power of
y
Working with the Assignment Operators
PHP assignment operators are used in assignment expressions to store the value
of expression in to a variable. Below is a list of assignment operators:
Assignment Description
x=y Assigning value of y to x
x += y Adding x and y and store the result in x
x -= y Subtracting y from x and store the result in x
x *= y Multiplying x and y and store the result in x
x /= y Dividing x by y and store the quotient in x
x %= y Dividing x by y and store the remainder in x
Increment and Decrement Operator
The increment/decrement operators are used to increment the value of variable
by 1 or decrement the value of variable by 1. The increment operator is ++ and
decrement operator is --.
The PHP String Operators
PHP provides two operators which are used with strings only. They are listed
below:
Operator Name Example Description
. Concatenation $str1.$str2 str1& str2 are concatenated
.= Concatenation $str1.=$str2 str2 is appended to str1
The Bitwise Operators
PHP logical operators are used find the Boolean value of multiple conditional
expressions. Below is a list of logical operators:
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Operator Name Example Description
and And $x and $y Returns true when both x and y are true
or Or $x or $y Returns true when either x or y or both of
them are true
xor Xor $x xor $y Returns true when either x or y is true
&& And $x && $y Returns true when both x and y are true
|| Or $x || $y Returns true when either x or y or both of
them are true
! Not !$x Returns true when x is false and vice
versa
Using the if Statement
if statement is a conditional statement that allows us to make decisions on what
code to execute.
The structure looks like:
if (expression) statement
Here, expression evaluates to a TRUE or FALSE.
If expression is TRUE, The statement that follows is executed; if it is FALSE,
statement is not executed
We use conditional and Logical Operators to create expression of if statement.
Example: We want to display some text if the outside temperature is above 28
degree.
<?php
$temperature=35;
if($temperature>28)
{
echo "Its hotter outside";
}
?>
we put the statements in curly braces.
Example: To check how many minutes someone has been in the pool- if its
more than 30minute, it's time to get out.
<html>
<head>
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<title> Using the if statement</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using the if Statement</h1>
<?php
$minutes=31;
if($minutes > 30)
{
echo "Wer time is UP!!<br>";
echo "Please get out of the pool.";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
The else statement
Often we want to execute a statement if a condition is TRUE,
and we execute different statement if the condition is FALSE.
if (expression) {
code to be executed if condition is true;
} else {
code to be executed if condition is false;
}
Example: We want to print a message if the outside temperature is outside the
range 24 degree and 32 degree,
and another message if the temperature is inside the range.
<html>
<head><title> Using the else statement</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Using the else Statement</h1>
<?php
$temperature=44;
if($temperature<24 || $temperature>32)
{
echo "Better Stay inside today!!";
}
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else
{
echo "Nice weather outside";
}
?>
</body></html>
The elseif statement
elseif, as its name suggests, is a combination of if and else.
If an if statements condition is false, we can make additional tests with elseif.
if (condition1) {
code to be executed when condition1 is true;
} elseif (condition2) {
code to be executed when condition2 is true;
} else {
code to be executed when conditions are false;
}
<html>
<head>
<title> Using the elseif statement</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using the elseif Statement</h1>
<?php
$a=40;
$b=30;
if ($a > $b)
{
echo "$a is bigger than $b";
} elseif ($a == $b)
{
echo "$a is equal to $b";
} else {
echo "$a is smaller than $b";
}
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?>
</body>
</html>
If the if statement's conditional expression is false, It will check the first elseif
statements expression, if it’s true elseif code is executed and if its false it
moves to the next elseif statement and so on. At he end else statement is
executed if the no other code is executed in the if statement up to this point.
switch statement:
switch statement lets us replace long if-elseif-else ladder of condition
checking with switch statement. switch statement compares a value against
case statement and execute a code block whose value matches the case value. if
no case value matches the value, default statement is executed. break statement
ends execution of the switch statement, if we don't write break statement,
execution will continue with the code.
<?php
switch(value){
case value1:
// code block 1
break;
case value2:
// code block 2
break;
default:
// default code block
break;
}
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title> Using the switch statement</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using the switch Statement</h1>
<?php
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$favcolor = "red";
switch ($favcolor)
{
case "red":
echo "Wer favorite color is red!";
break;
case "blue":
echo "Wer favorite color is blue!";
break;
case "green":
echo "Wer favorite color is green!";
break;
default:
echo "Wer favorite color is neither red, blue, nor green!";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
for loop
for loop is a repetition control structure that allows us to execute a block of
code a specified number of times.
When we want to execute same block of code over and over again specified
number of times.
Syntax:
for( expression1 ; expression1 ; expression1 )
statement
First, for loop executes expression1; then it checks the value of expression2 - if
true , loop executes statement once.
Then it executes expression3 and after that checks the expression2 again-- if
true loop execute statement once again.
Then loop executes expression3 again, and keeps going untill expression2
becomes false.
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<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the for loop
</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
for ($x = 0; $x <= 10; $x++) {
echo "The number is: $x <br>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
for loop can handle multiple loop counters by seperating them with comma
operator.
<?php
for ($i=2, $k=2; $i<6 && $k<6 ; $i++, $k++) {
echo "$i * $k = ",$i *$k,"<br>";
}
?>
The two variables $i and $k are initialized with 2.
At the end of each each loop $i and $k will be incremented by one.
We can put one loop inside a another loop, call as nested loop.
<?php
for ($row = 1; $row <= 5; $row++)
{
for ($col = 1; $col <= 5; $col++)
{
echo '*';
}
echo "\n";
}
?>
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Outputs:
*****
*****
*****
*****
*****
While Loop
When we want to execute same block of code over and over again as long as
the condition is true, we go for while loop.
Syntax:
while (expression)
{
statement
}
While expression is true, the loop executes statement. When expression is false,
the loop ends.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the while loop
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Using the while loop </h1>
<?php
$x=1;
while($x<10)
{
echo "Now \$x holds : ",$x,"<br>";
$x++;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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Using do... while loop
"do while" loop is a slightly modified version of the while loop
In while loop, the condition is checked at the beginning of each iteration, in do-
while condition is checked at the end of each iteration.
It means do-while loop always executes its block of code at least once even the
condition is evaluated to false.
while vs. do-while
do-while loop body executes at least once even when condition is false whereas
while loop body may not execute at all if condition evaluates to false.
The condition in the do-while loop is evaluated at the end whereas the
condition in the while loop is evaluated at the beginning of each iteration.
Syntax:
do
{
statement
} while (condition);
do... while loop keeps executing statement while condition is true- note
expression is tested at the end.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the do...while loop
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Using the do...while loop </h1>
<?php
$x=1;
do
{
echo "Now \$x holds : ",$x,"<br>";
$x++;
} while($x<10);
?>
</body>
</html>
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Using the foreach loop
The foreach loop is especially designed to work with array.
foreach loop will loop over all elements of an array.
for loop and while Loop will continue until some condition fails, the foreach
loop will continue until it has gone through every item in the array.
There are two syntax:
o foreach (array_expression as $value) statement
o foreach (array_expression as $key => $value) statement
break: terminating loop early
• We can stop a loop or switch statement at any time with the break
statement.
• break ends the execution of for, foreach, while, do-while or switch
statement.
• If we use break inside inner loop, it breaks the execution of inner loop
only.
<html>
<head>
<title> Using the break statement</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Using the break statement</h1>
<?php
for ( $x=0 ; $x < 100 ; $x++)
{
echo "I 'm going to do this hundred times!<br>";
if ($x == 10)
{
echo "Alright, i'm quitting,<br>";
}
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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continue :skipping iteration
Sometimes, we want to skip an iteration of a loop to avoid some kind of
problem like division by zero-- we can do that with continue statement.
continue is used within looping structures to skip the rest of the current loop
iteration and continue execution at the condition evaluation and proceed to the
beginning of the next iteration.
break ends a loop completely, continue just shortcuts the current iteration and
moves on to the next iteration.
while ($foo) { <--------------------┐
continue; --- goes back here --┘
break; ----- jumps here ----┐
} |
<--------------------┘
break exits the loop in which we are in, continue starts with the next cycle of
the loop immediatly.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using the continue statement</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$x=1;
for( $x=-2; $x < 3 ; $x++ )
{
if ($x == 0)
{
continue;
}
echo "1/$x = ",1/$x,"<br>";
$x++
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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Arrays
Array is a collection of heterogeneous elements. There are two types of arrays
in PHP. First type of array is a normal one that contains integer keys (indexes)
which can be found in any typical programming languages. The second type of
arrays is an associative array, where the keys are strings.
Array Creation
Arrays in PHP are dynamic. There is no need to specify the size of an array. A
normal array can be created by using the integer index and the assignment
operator as shown below:
$array1[0] = 10;
If no integer index is specified, the index will be set to 1 larger than the
previous largest index value used. Consider the following example:
$array2[3] = 5;
$array2[ ] = 90;
In the above example, 90 will be stored at index location 4.
There is another way for creating an array, using the array construct, which is
not a function. The data elements are passed to the array construct as shown in
the below example:
$array3 = array(10, 15, 34, 56);
$array4 = array( );
In the above example array4 is an empty array which can be used later to store
elements. A traditional array with irregular indexes can be created as shown
below:
$array5 = array(3 => 15, 4 =>, 37, 5 => 23);
The above code creates an array with indexes 3, 4 and 5.
An associative array which contains named keys (indexes) can be created as
shown below:
$ages = array("Ken" => 29, "John" => 30, "Steve" => 26, "Bob" => 28); An
array in PHP can be a mixture of both traditional and associative arrays.
Accessing Array Elements
Array elements can be accessed using the subscript (index or key) value which
is enclosed in square brackets.
Consider a traditional array as shown below:
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$array1 = array(10, 20, 30, 40);
Third element (30) in the above array can be accessed by writing $array1[2].
The index of any traditional array starts with 0.
Consider an associative array or hash as shown below:
$ages = array("Ken" => 29, "John" => 30, "Steve" => 26, "Bob" => 28); We
can access the age (30) of John by writing $ages['John'].
Handling Arrays with Loops:
The for Loop
The for loop is used to iterate over the elements of an array when we know in
advance the number of elements of an Array. The count() function is used to
return the length (the number of elements) of an array & this number is useful
when we want to set the number of times the for loop to repeat.
Syntax
for (init counter; test counter; increment/decrement counter) {
code to be executed;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Using a for loop to loop over an Array</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using a for loop to loop over an Array</h1>
</br></br><?php
$cities=array("Hyderabad","Chennai","Delhi","Mumbai","Pune","Kolk
ata","Lucknow","Chandigarh");
$arrayLength=count($cities);
for($i=0; $i<$arrayLength;$i++)
{
echo $cities[$i],"<br>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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The print_r Function
There is simple way to print the contents of an array using print_r function. For
example:
<?php
$cities=array("Hyderabad","Chennai","Delhi","Mumbai","Pune","Kolk
ata","Lucknow","Chandigarh");
print_r($cities);
?>
The foreach Loop
The for each loop is designed to iterate over an elements of an Array
(Associative array)/Object.
We have two syntax to use foreach loop:
foreach (array as $value) statement
foreach (array as $key => $value) statement
The following example, puts the foreach loop to work, looping over the $cities
array like:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using a foreach loop to loop over an Array
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using a foreach loop to loop over an Array</h1>
</br></br>
<?php
$cities=array("Hyderabad","Chennai","Delhi","Mumbai","Pune","Kolk
ata","Lucknow","Chandigarh");
foreach ($cities as $value)
{
echo "$value<br>";
}
?>
</body>
</html
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when foreach starts executing, the array pointer is automatically set to the first
element of the array. On each iteration, the value of the current element is
assigned to $value and the array pointer is incremented by one.
The second form of foreach loop lets us to work with keys as well as values.
Element is a combination of element key and element value. PHP also support
slightly different type of array in which index numbers are replaced with user
defined string keys.
This type of array is known as Associative Array. The keys of the array must be
unique, each key references a single value. The key value relationship is
expressed through => symbol.
For example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Using a foreach loop with keys and values in an Array
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using a foreach loop with keys and values in n Array</h1></br></br>
<?php
$details=array("name"=>"ACE","Type"=>"College","Place"=>"Hydera
bad");
foreach ($cities as $key=>$value)
{
echo "$key : $value<br>";
}
?></body></html>
Note: If we don’t provide an explicit key to an array element, The new key
value depends upon the previous key.
<?php
$a=array(10,100=”ACE”,30); //[0]=>10 [100]=>ACE [101]=30
print_r($a);
?>
<?php
$a=array(10,20,0=>30);
print_r($a); //[0]=30 [1]=20
?>
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The while loop
The meaning of a while statement is simple. It tells PHP to execute the nested
statement(s) repeatedly, as long as the while expression evaluates to TRUE.
The value of the expression is checked each time at the beginning of the loop.
if the while expression evaluates to FALSE the execution of nested statement
will stop.
We can use while loop to iterate over an array.
To handle multiple-item return value from the each function, we can use list()
function . Example:
<?php
$Language=array("PHP","XML","Servlet","JSP","JavaScript");
list($x, $y, $z)=$Language;
echo "We have covered $x, $y and $z.";
?>
list() function assign the two return value from each separate variable. Like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Using a while loop with keys and values in an Array</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Using a while loop with keys and values in n Array</h1></br></br>
<?php
$details=array("name"=>"ACE","Type"=>"College","Place"=>"Hydera
bad");
while (list($key, $value)=each($details))
{
echo "$key : $value<br";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
PHP Array Function
array() - function creates and returns an array.
array_change_key_case() - function changes the case of all key of an array.
array_chunk() - function splits array into chunks. we can divide array into
many parts.
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count() - function counts all elements in an array.
sort() - function sorts all the elements in an array.
array_reverse() - function returns an array containing elements in reversed
order.
array_search() - function searches the specified value in an array.
array_intersect() - function returns the intersection of two array. It returns the
matching elements of two array.
array_push() — function pushes one or more elements onto the end of array.
array_pop() — function pops the element off the end of array.
array_merge() — function merge one or more arrays.
array_sum() — function calculate the sum of values in an array.
Converting Between String and Arrays Using implode and
explode
The implode function is used to "join elements of an array with a string".
Implode() accepts two argument, first argument the separator which specifies
what character to use between array elements, and second one is array.
<?php
$ice_cream[0]="Chocolate";
$ice_cream[1]="Mango";
$ice_cream[2]="Strawberry";
$text=implode(" , ", $ice_cream); //Outputs: Chocolate, Mango,
Strawberry
?>
The explode function breaks a string into an array.
Explode() accepts three argument, first one is the delimiter, second one is the
strings that needs splitting, and third one is not mandatory.
<?php
$ice_cream="Chocolate, Mango, Orange";
$ice_cream=explode(" , ", $text);
print_r($ice_cream); //Outputs: Array( [0]=>Chocolate [1]=>Mango
[2]=>Strawberry)
?>
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Functions
Now that we should have learned about variables, loops, and conditional
statements it is time to learn about functions.
When we have a block of code that needs to be run multiple times in our
application, we put that block of code into a function.
A function is a block of code (that performs a task) that can be executed
whenever we need it.
Advantages of using functions is, it reduces the repetition of code within a
program.
Creating functions in PHP
while creating a function its name starts with keyword 'function', followed by
the name of the function we want to create followed by parentheses i.e. ()
We put our function's code inside { and }
Syntax:
function functionName()
{
code to be executed;
}
functionName starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of
letters, numbers, or underscores.
<?php
function display() {
echo "Hello world!";
}
display(); // call the function
?>
Passing Functions Some Data
Data can be passed to functions via the argument list/ Parameter list.
We can pass data to functions so functions can operate on that data.
We can define a function to accept values through parameters.
A parameter appears with the parentheses "( )" separated by comma.
Syntax:
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function functionName([parameter_list...])
{
[statements];
}
Example:If we want to pass the person's name, and our function will
concatenate this name onto a greeting string.
<html>
<head><title> Passing data to functions</title></head>
<body>
<?php
function display($name) {
echo "Hello $name !!";
}
display("Aditya"); // call the function
?>
</body>
</html>
Passing Arrays to Functions
We can pass arrays to functionsis very simple.
Example:
Define a function to find total of student's test scores and displays the total.
<html>
<head>
<title> Passing arrays to function </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Passing arrays to function </h1>
<?php
$scores=array(90,40,65,98,75); //First create an array of test score
//Now, Lets define an total function:
function total($array)
{
$totalmarks=0;
foreach($array as $value) //we use foreach statement to loop over
the array
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{
$totalmarks + = $value ;
}
}
echo " The total marks: ",total($scores); //Call the function: total($scores)
?>
</body>
</html>
Introducing Variable Scope in PHP
Scope refers to the visibility of a variable in the PHP script. A variable defined
inside a function will have local scope i.e., within the function. A variable
outside the function can have the same name as a local variable in a function,
where the local variable has higher precedence over the outer variable.
There are only two scopes available in PHP namely:
1) Local scope -- Local variables, Static variables, Function parameters
2) Global scope -- Global variables
Accessing Global Data:
Variables in global scope can be accessed from anywhere from outside a
function independent of its boundary.
Global variables can be defined by using global keyword.
If we want to use global variables inside a function, we have to prefix the
global keyword with the variable.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Handling Local and Global scope in functions</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Handling Local and Global scope in functions</h1>
<?php
$value = 4;
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function func1()
{
$value = 80000;
echo "Inside function one \$value : ",$value,"<br";
}
function func2()
{
global $value;
echo "Inside function two \$value : ",$value,"<br";
}
echo "outside function \$value : ",$value;
func1();
func2();
?>
</body>
</html>
Working with Static Variables(local scope)
A static variable is again a variable with local scope.
The issue with local variable inside a function is that, as the function exits- the
local variable vanishes. When the function is called again, a new local variable
is created.
<html>
<head>
<title>Keeping a Count of function call</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Keeping a Count of function call</h1>
<?php
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:1
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:1
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:1
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:1
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function count_function()
{
$counter = 0;
$counter++;
return $counter;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Above code will print counter value always 1, because $counter is reset to 0
every time we call the cunt_function.
Making $counter as global variable
<?php
$counter = 0;
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:1
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:2
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:3
echo "Now the count is: ". count_function(),"<br>"; //Now the count is:4
function count_function()
{
global $counter;
$counter++;
return $counter;
}
?>
Connecting to Database:
PHP have Built-in Database Access.
PHP provides built-in database connectivity for a wide range of databases –
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Berkeley DB, Informix,
mSQL, Lotus Notes, and more.
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What is MySQL?
MySQL is a database. The data in MySQL is stored in database objects called
tables.
A table is a collection of related data entries and it consists of columns and
rows.
Databases are useful when storing information categorically. A company may
have a database with the following tables: "Employees", "Products",
"Customers" and "Orders".
Database Tables
A database most often contains one or more tables. Each table is identified by a
name (e.g. "Customers" or "Orders"). Tables contain records (rows) with data.
Create a Connection to a MySQL Database
Before we can access data in a database, we must create a connection to the
database. In PHP, this is done with the mysql_connect() function.
Syntax
mysql_connect(servername,username,password);
Example:In the following example we store the connection in a variable ($con)
for later use in the script. The die() function prints a message and exits the
current script, and will be executed if the connection fails:
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123"); ]
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
// some code
?>
Closing a Connection
The connection will be closed automatically when the script ends. To close the
connection before, use the mysql_close() function:
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<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123"); if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
// some code mysql_close($con);
?>
Create a Database
The CREATE DATABASE statement is used to create a database in MySQL.
Syntax
CREATE DATABASE database_name
To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query()
function. This function is used to send a query or command to a MySQL
connection.
Example
The following example creates a database called "my_db":
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
// connect to database if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
} // exit script
if (mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE my_db",$con))
// create database my_db
{
echo "Database created";
}
else
{
echo "Error creating database: " . mysql_error();
}
mysql_close($con); // close db connection
?>
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Create a Table
The CREATE TABLE statement is used to create a table in MySQL.
Syntax
CREATE TABLE table_name (
column_name1 data_type, column_name2 data_type, column_name3
data_type,
....
)
We must add the CREATE TABLE statement to the mysql_query() function to
execute the command.
Example
The following example creates a table named "Persons", with three columns.
The column names will be "FirstName", "LastName" and "Age":
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123"); if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); }
// Create database
if (mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE my_db",$con))
{
echo "Database created"; } else
{
echo "Error creating database: " . mysql_error(); }
// Create table mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$sql = "CREATE TABLE Persons (
FirstName varchar(15), LastName varchar(15), Age int)";
// Execute query mysql_query($sql,$con);
mysql_close($con);
?>
Insert Data Into a Database Table
The INSERT INTO statement is used to add new records to a database table.
Syntax
It is possible to write the INSERT INTO statement in two forms.
The first form doesn't specify the column names where the data will be
inserted, only their values:
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INSERT INTO table_name
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)
The second form specifies both the column names and the values to be inserted:
INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3,...) VALUES
(value1, value2, value3,...)
To get PHP to execute the statements above we must use the mysql_query()
function. This function is used to send a query or command to a MySQL
connection.
Example:In the previous chapter we created a table named "Persons", with
three columns; "Firstname", "Lastname" and "Age". We will use the same table
in this example. The following example adds two new records to the "Persons"
table:
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age)
VALUES ('Peter', 'Griffin',35)");
mysql_query("INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age)
VALUES ('Glenn', 'Quagmire',33)");
mysql_close($con);
?>
Select Data From a Database Table
The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database.
Syntax
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name
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To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query()
function. This function is used to send a query or command to a MySQL
connection.
Example
The following example selects all the data stored in the "Persons" table (The *
character selects all the data in the table):
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Persons");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['FirstName'] . " " . $row['LastName']; echo "<br />";
}
mysql_close($con);?>
Handling Session and Cookies:
PHP Sessions
A PHP session variable is used to store information about, or change settings
for a user session.
Session variables hold information about one single user, and are available to
all pages in one application.
PHP Session Variables
When we are working with an application, we open it, do some changes and
then we close it.
This is much like a Session. The computer knows who we are. It knows when
we start the application and when we end. But on the internet there is one
problem: the web server does not know who we are and what we do because
the HTTP address doesn't maintain state.
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A PHP session solves this problem by allowing we to store user information on
the server for later use (i.e. username, shopping items, etc). However, session
information is temporary and will be deleted after the user has left the website.
If we need a permanent storage we may want to store the data in a database.
Sessions work by creating a unique id (UID) for each visitor and store variables
based on this UID. The UID is either stored in a cookie or is propagated in the
URL.
Starting a PHP Session
Before we can store user information in wer PHP session, we must first start up
the session.
The session_start() function must appear BEFORE the <html> tag:
The code above will register the user's session with the server, allow we to start
saving user information, and assign a UID for that user's session.
Destroying a Session
If we wish to delete some session data, we can use the unset() or the
session_destroy() function.
The unset() function is used to free the specified session variable:
<?php
unset($_SESSION['views']);
?>
We can also completely destroy the session by calling the session_destroy()
function.
PHP Cookie
A cookie is often used to identify a user. A cookie is a small file that the
server embeds on the user's computer.
Each time the same computer requests a page with a browser, it will send
the cookie too. With PHP, we can both create and retrieve cookie values.
How to Create a Cookie?
The setcookie() function is used to set a cookie.
Note: The setcookie() function must appear BEFORE the <html> tag.
setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain);
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In the example below, we will create a cookie named "user" and assign the
value "Alex Porter" to it. We also specify that the cookie should expire after
one hour:
<?php
setcookie("user", "Alex Porter", time()+3600);
?>
To Retrieve a Cookie Value?
The PHP $_COOKIE variable is used to retrieve a cookie value.
In the example below, we retrieve the value of the cookie named "user" and
display it on a page:
<?php
// Print a cookie
echo $_COOKIE["user"];
// A way to view all cookies print_r($_COOKIE);
?>
In the following example we use the isset() function to find out if a cookie has
been set:
<html>
<body>
<?php
if (isset($_COOKIE["user"]))
echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE["user"] . "!<br />"; else
echo "Welcome guest!<br />";
?>
</body>
</html>
To Delete a Cookie?
When deleting a cookie we should assure that the expiration date is in the past.
<?php
// set the expiration date to one hour ago setcookie("user", "", time()‐3600);
?>
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File Handling in PHP
File operation Opening and Closing:
Files are opened in PHP using the fopen command. The command takes two
parameters, the file to be opened, and the mode in which to open the file. The
function returns a file pointer if successful, otherwise zero (false). Files are
opened with fopen for reading or writing.
$fp = fopen("myfile.txt", "r");
If fopen is unable to open the file, it returns 0. This can be used to exit the
function with an appropriate message.
if ( !($fp = fopen("myfile.txt", "r") ) )
exit("Unable to open the input file.");
File Modes
The following table shows the different modes the file may be opened in.
Mode Description
r Read Only mode, with the file pointer at the start of the file.
r+ Read/Write mode, with the file pointer at the start of the file.
w Write Only mode. Truncates the file (effectively overwriting it).
If the file doesn't exist, fopen will attempt to create the file.
w+ Read/Write mode. Truncates the file (effectively overwriting it).
If the file doesn't exist, fopen will attempt to create the file.
a Append mode, with the file pointer at the end of the file. If the
file doesn't exist, fopen will attempt to create the file.
a+ Read/Append, with the file pointer at the end of the file. If the
file doesn't exist, fopen will attempt to create the file.
Note: The mode may also contain the letter 'b'. This is useful only on systems
which differentiate between binary and text files (i.e. Windows. It's useless on
Unix/Linux). If not needed, it will be ignored.
Closing a File
The fclose function is used to close a file when we are finished with it.
fclose($fp);
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Reading:
Reading from Files
We can read from files opened in r, r+, w+, and a+ mode. The feof function is
used to determine if the end of file is true.
if ( feof($fp) )
echo "End of file<br>";
The feof function can be used in a while loop, to read from the file until the end
of file is encountered. A line at a time can be read with the fgets function:
while( !feof($fp) ) {
// Reads one line at a time, up to 254 characters. Each line ends with a
newline.
$myline = fgets($fp, 255);
echo $myline;
}
We can read in a single character at a time from a file using the fgetc function:
while ( !feof($fp) ) {
// Reads one character at a time from the file. $ch = fgetc($fp);
echo $ch;
}
We can also read a single word at a time from a file using the fscanf function.
The function takes a variable number of parameters, but the first two
parameters are mandatory. The first parameter is the file handle, the second
parameter is a C-style format string. Any parameters passed after this are
optional, but if used will contain the values of the format string.
$listFile = "list.txt"; // See next page for file contents if (!($fp = fopen($listFile,
"r")))
exit("Unable to open $listFile.");
while (!feof($fp)) {
// Assign variables to optional arguments
$buffer = fscanf($fp, "%s %s %d", $name, $title, $age);
if ($buffer == 3) // $buffer contains the number of items it was able to
assign print "$name $title $age<br>\n";
}
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We can also store the variables in an array by omitting the optional parameters
in fscanf:
while (!feof($fp)) {
$buffer = fscanf($fp, "%s %s %d"); // Assign variables to an array
// Use the list function to move the variables from the array into
variables list($name, $title, $age) = $buffer;
print "$name $title $age<br>\n";
}
We can read in an entire file with the fread function. It reads a number of bytes
from a file, up to the end of the file (whichever comes first). The filesize
function returns the size of the file in bytes, and can be used with the fread
function, as in the following example.
$listFile = "myfile.txt";
if (!($fp = fopen($listFile, "r")))
exit("Unable to open the input file, $listFile.");
$buffer = fread($fp, filesize($listFile));
echo "$buffer<br>\n";
fclose($fp);
We can also use the file function to read the entire contents of a file into an
array instead of opening the file with fopen:
$array = file(‘filename.txt’);
Each array element contains one line from the file, where each line is
terminated by a newline.
Writing to Files
The fwrite function is used to write a string, or part of a string to a file. The
function takes three parameters, the file handle, the string to write, and the
number of bytes to write. If the number of bytes is omitted, the whole string is
written to the file. If we want the lines to appear on separate lines in the file,
use the \n character. Note: Windows requires a carriage return character as well
as a new line character, so if we're using Windows, terminate the string with
\r\n. The following example logs the visitor to a file, then displays all the
entries in the file.
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<?php
$logFile = "stats.txt";
$fp = fopen($logFile, "a+"); // Open the file in append/read mode
$userDetails = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]; // Create a string
containing user details if (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]))
$userDetails .= " {$_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]}<br>\r\n"; else
$userDetails .= "<br>\r\n";
fwrite($fp, "$userDetails"); // Write the user details to the file rewind($fp);
// Move the file pointer to the start of the file $entries = 0;
while(!feof($fp)) { // Display each line in the file
$buffer = fgets($fp, 1024);
if ($buffer != "") {
echo $buffer;
$entries++;
}
} // Show a summary
echo "There are $entries entries in the log file<br>"; fclose ($fp);
?>
OBJECTIVEQUESTIONS
01. What does PHP stand for?
i) Personal Home Page
ii) Hypertext Preprocessor
iii) Pretext Hypertext Processor
iv) Preprocessor Home Page
(A) Both i) and iii) (B) Both ii) and iv)
(C) Only ii) (D) Both i) and ii)
01. Answer: (D)
02. A PHP script should start with ___ and end with ___:
(A) < php > (B) < ? php ?>
(C) <? ?> (D) <?php ?>
02. Answer: (C) or (D)
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03. Which of the following php statement/statements will store 111 in
variable num?
i) int $num = 111;
ii) int mum = 111;
iii) $num = 111;
iv) 111 = $num;
(A) Both (i) and (ii) (B) All of the mentioned.
(C) Only (iii) (D) Only (i)
03. Answer: (C)
04. What will be the output of the following php code?
<? php
$num=1;
$num1=2;
print$num."+".$num1;
?>
(A) 3 (B) 1+2
(C) 1.+.2 (D) Error
04. Answer: (B)
05. What will be the output of the following PHP code?
<?php
$color="maroon";
$var=$color[2];
echo"$var";
?>
(a)a (b)Error (c)$var (d) r
05. Answer: (D)
06. What will be the output of the following code?
<?php
function track(){
static $count=0;
$count++;
echo$count;
}
track();
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track();
track();
?>
(A) 123 (B) 111 (C) 000 (D) 011
06. Answer: (A)
07. What is the value of $a and $b after the function call?
<?php
function doSomething(&$arg){
$return=$arg;
$arg+=1;
return$return;
}
$a=3;
$b= doSomething($a);
?>
(A) a is 3 and b is 4 (B) a is 4 and b is 3
(C) Both are 3 (D) Both are 4.
07. Answer: B
08. Which one of the following functions can be used to compress a string?
(A) zip compress() (B) zip()
(C) compress() (D) gzcompress()
08. Answer: (D)
09. Which one of the following PHP function is used to determine a file’s
last access time?
(A) fileltime() (B) filectime()
(C) fileatime() (D) filetime()
09. Answer: C
10. Which directive determines whether PHP scripts on the server can
accept file uploads?
(A) file_uploads (B) file_upload
(C) file_input (D) file_intake
10. Answer: A
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11. If you want to temporarily store uploaded files in the
/tmp/phpuploads/ directory, which one of the following statement will
you use?
(A) upload_tmp_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”
(B) upload_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”
(C) upload_temp_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”
(D) Dupload_temp_director “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”
11. Answer: (A)
12. Which one of the following databases has PHP supported almost since
the beginning?
(A) Oracle Database (B) SQL
(C) SQL+ (D) MySQL
12. Answer: (D)
13. Which one of the following statements can be used to select the
database
(A) $mysqli=select_db(‘databasename’);
(B) mysqli=select_db(‘databasename’);
(C) mysqli->select_db(‘databasename’);
(D) $mysqli->select_db(‘databasename’);
13. Answer: D
14. Which one of the following methods can be used diagnose and
displayinformation about a MySQL connection error?
(A) connect_errno() (B) connect_error()
(C) mysqli_connect_errno() (D) mysqli_connect_error()
14. Answer: (C)
14. Which one of the following is the very first task executed by a session
enabled page?
(A) Delete the previous session
(B) Start a new session
(C) Check whether a valid session exists
(D) Handle the session
14. Answer: C
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15. Which one of the following function is used to start a session?
(A) start_session() (B) session_start()
(C) session_begin() (D) begin_session()
15. Answer: (B)
16. The session_start() function must appear..
(A) after the html tag (B) after the body tag
(C) before the body tag (D) before the html tag
16. Answer: D
17. Which one of the following function is capable of reading a file into a
string variable?
(A) file_contents() (B) file_get_contents()
(C) file_content() (D) file_get_content()
17. Answer: (B)
18. Which one of the following methods is responsible for sending the
query to the database?
(A) query() (B) send_query()
(C) sendquery() (D) query_send()
18. Answer: (A)
19. Which one of the following method is used to retrieve the number of
rows affected by an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE query?
(A) num_rows() (B) affected_rows()
(C) changed_rows() (D) new_rows()
19. Answer: (B)
20. Which of the following methods is used to execute the statement after
the parameters have been bound?
(A) bind_param() (B) bind_result()
(C) bound_param() (D) bound_result()
20. Answer: (A)
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION BANK
PART – A (SHORT ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. What is PHP?
02. What is Data Type?
03. Explain different types of operators?
04. Explain String Functions?
05. What is a Function?
06. Define Multi-dimensional Array?
07. Explain Scope, Local, Global, Static?
08. What is the output of the following:
<?php
$actor[0]=”laxmi”;
Echo “\$actor[0]”;
?>
09. Discuss associative arrays with example What is the output of following:
10. <?php
$x=10;
function f()
{
echo GLOBALS[‘$x’];
}
f();
echo $x;
?>
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01. What is string Interpolation? Explain briefly about PHP’s Internal Data
Types
02. Explain the conversion between different data types in PHP with an
Example program.
03. How text manipulation is done in PHP. Write a program to compare two
strings and print respectively.
04. Write a program in PHP to create a registration page using FORMS.
05. Write a program in PHP for passing arguments using Functions.
06. Write a PHP program to print addition of two matrices.
07. Write a PHP program to count number of words in the given string.
08. Write a PHP program to check whether given number is Armstrong or not.
09. Write a PHP program to create user validation Form.
10. Explain about for each loop.
PART–C (PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS)
01. Write a php program that replaces some characters with some other
characters in a string.
02 Write a php program uses a constant inside a function, even if it is defined
outside the function.
03. Write a php program that uses array operators
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TUTORIALS QUESTION BANK
PART – A (SHORT ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. What is PHP?
02. What is the use of "echo" in php?
03. What's the difference between include and require?
04. require_once(), require(), include().What is difference between them?
05. Differences between GET and POST methods ?
06. How to declare an array in php?
07. What is the use of 'print' in php? .
08. What is use of in_array() function in php ? .
09. What is use of count() function in php ? .
10. What is sql injection?.
PART – B (LONG ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. How to set a page as a home page in a php based site? How to find the
length of a string?
02. What is mean by an associative array? Write a program to print the name
and the age of a person’s using associative arrays.
03. Extend the importance of "method" attribute in a html form? Explain it
with the help of an example.
04. What is the importance of "action" attribute in a html form?.
05. How to create an array of a group of items inside an HTML form?
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PART – C (PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS)
01. How to set a page as a home page in a php based site? How to find the
length of a string?
02. What is mean by an associative array? Write a program to print the name
and the age of a person’s using associative arrays.
03. Extend the importance of "method" attribute in a html form? Explain it
with the help of an example.
04. What is the importance of "action" attribute in a html form? .
05. How to create an array of a group of items inside an HTML form? .
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2 XML
Topics: For Micro Notes by the
XML: Introduction to XML, Defining XML tags, their attributes and values,
Document Type Definition, XML Schemes, Document Object Model, XHTML
Students…………..
Parsing XML Data – DOM and SAX Parsers in java.
Introduction to XML
XML means eXtensible Markup Language. XML was developed by an
organization called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is available as
an open standard.
Markup is a set of instructions, often called tags. XML allows we to create our
own self-descriptive tags and use them in XML document to satisfy application
requirement. XML tags are not predefined like HTML tags. HTML supports a
predefined set of tags and HTML document can use only those tags.
Since more such new tags may be defined , XML is said to be extensible.
We can create XML document using text editor and save it with “.xml”
extension.
XML is derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which
is a system for defining the markup Language.
XML is a case-sensitive meta-markup language because it allows we to create
custom defined markup languages.
XML is used to describe structured data or information. HTML is designed to
display data on the browser’s screen; they carry no information about the data.
On the other hand, XML is designed to carry data. XML is used as a primary
means to manipulate and transfer structured data over the web.
Role Of XML
XML plays a significant role in web development. XML document separates the
content from their presentation. It does not specify how the content should be
displayed. It only specifies the contents with their logical structure. The
formatting task is done on an external style sheet; the look and feel may be
changed very easily by choosing different style sheets.
XML also promotes easy data sharing among applications. Since application
hold data in different structures, XML help us in mapping data from one to
another. Each data structure is mapped to an agreed-upon XML structure. This
XML structure may then be used by other applications. So, each application has
to deal with only two structures: its own and the XML structure.
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An XML document consists of the following parts:
• Prolog
• Body
Prolog
This part of the XML document contain the following parts:
• XML Declaration
• Optional Processing Instruction
• Comments
• Document Type Declaration
XML Declaration
Every XML document start with a one-line XML declaration. This declaration
must be always the first statement in wer XML document.
<?xml version=”1.0” ?>
This declaration describes the document itself. This declaration is a instruction
that tells the processing agent that the document is an XML document. The
mandatory version attributes indicates the version used in the document.XML
Declaration may use two optional attributes: encoding & standalone.
Processing Instruction
Processing instructions start with <? and end with ?>. The XML Declaration
discussed above is a processing instruction.
Comments
Comments are used to describe what our program/ Block of code is going to do.
Comments are ignored by XML parsers and applications using the XML
document. An XML comments start with <!- -and ends with - ->
<!- -comment text- ->
The following point should be remembered while using the comments:
• Do not use double hyphen ‘ - -‘
• Never place comments within a tag.
• Never place a comment before the XML Declaration.
Document Type Declaration[DTD]
The Document Type Declaration is used to specify the logical structure of the
XML document. Each valid XML document has associated with DTD. This
DTD usually held in a separate file, so it can be used with many documents. The
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DTD file holds the rules of grammar for a particular XML data structure. Those
rules are used by the validating parser to check that is not only the valid XML
file, but it also obeys its own internal rules.
Body
Body portion of the XML document contains textual data marked up by tags. It
must have one element, called the document element or root element. Consider
the following XML Document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<greeting>Hello World!!</greeting>
The name of the root element is <greeting>, which contain the text “Hello
World!!”.
There can be one and only one root element. The following XML document is
not valid as it have two top level elements, <greeting> and <message>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<greeting>Hello World!!</greeting>
<message>World is beautiful</message>
The root element contains other elements which, in turn contain other elements:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<contact>
<person>
<name>My College</name>
<number>9876543210</number>
</person>
<person>
<name>Wers College</name>
<number>901234567</number>
</person>
</contact>
This XML document has the root element <contact> which has two <person>
elements. Each <person> element has two elements, <name> and <number>
Elements
An XML element consists of starting tag, an ending tag, its contents and
attributes. The content may be simple text, or other elements, or both. XML
elements are used to store data.
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The XML tag begins with the lass than character (‘<’) and ends with the greater
than (‘>’) character. Every tag must have the corresponding ending tag. The
ending tag looks exactly like the starting tag except that it includes a slash(‘/’)
character before the tag name. All information in this element must be contained
in the starting and ending tags.
Example:
<greeting> Hello world!! </greeting>
Here, <greeting> is the starting tag and </greeting> is the ending tag. Element
have only text content “Hello World!!”
Attributes
Attributes are used to describe elements or to provide more information about
element. They appear in the starting tag of the element.
Syntax:
<element-name attribute-name="attribute-value">....</element-name>
Example:
<employee gender=”male”>….</employee>
An element can also have multiple attributes:
<employee gender=”male” id=”12345”>….</employee>
Well-Formed XML
An XML document is said to be well-formed if it contains tags and text that
confirms with the basic XML well-formedness constraints.
The following rules must be followed by the XML document to be well-
formed:
An XML document must have one and exactly one root element.
All tags must be closed
Every element must have a closing tag corresponding to its opening tag.
The following code is well formed because the opening tag <name> has its
corresponding closing tag </name>
<name> CSE A-Section</name>
The following document fragment is not well-formed as there is no closing tag
for the opening tag <name>
<name> CSE A-Section
A tag must be closed even if it does not have any content(empty element). In
HTML , some tags such as <img>, <br>, <hr> do not require any closing tag.
But in XML closing tag is always needed.
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The following syntax is incorrect in XML:
<br>
Its correct representation is: <br> </br>
Alternatively, XML has an abbreviated version as <br / >
All tags must be properly nested:
When we insert one tag within another, an ending must have the same name as
the most recent unmatched tag.
If we open element A and then element B, we must first close B before closing
A.
Right: <b><i>This text is bold and italic</i></b>
Wrong: <b><i>This text is bold and italic</b></i>
XML Tags are Case Sensitive
XML element names are case sensitive. The tag <Message> is different from the
tag <message>.
Opening and closing tags must be written with the same case.
The following code is not well formed:
<Message>This is incorrect</message>
The following two elements are well formed:
<Message>This is correct</Message>
<message>This is also correct</message>
Attribute must always be Quoted
The value of an attribute must be quoted by double inverted comma.
The following syntax is corrrect:
<speed unit="rpm">7200</speed>
The following syntax is incorrect because the value rpm is written without any
quotation mark:
<speed unit=rpm>7200</speed>
Certain characters are reserved for processing
Certain characters can't be used in the XML document directly. For example: '<'
, '>' and '"' can't be used.
The following syntax is incorrect as it confuses XML parsers:
<condition> if salary < 1000 then </condition>
XML provides entities for these special character and XML parser will substitute
each entity by its value.
An entity starts with an '&' character and ends with a ';'.
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The following code is correct:
<condition>if salary < 1000 then </condition>
Predefined Entities:
Valid XML:
Valid XML documents are those that:
• are well formed.
• Comply with rules specified in the DTD or schema
The basic difference between well formed and valid XMl document is that the
former is defined without DTD or schema and the latter requires a DTD or
Schema.
Validation
It is a method of checking whether an XML document is well-formed and
confirms to the rules specified by a DTD or schema. Many tools are available to
validate XML document against DTD or Schema. Linux provide one such
application called xmllint for the validation.
Example: To validate sample.xml using xmllint with this command:
Xmllint - -valid sample.xml
Elements or Attributes
Data can be stored in elements or in attributes.
Example-1:
<person sex="male">
<name>Aditya</name>
</person>
Example-2:
<person>
<sex>male</sex>
<name>Anna</name>
</person>
In the first example sex is an attribute. In the second, sex is an element. Both
examples provide the same information.
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So, When do we use elements and when do we use attributes for presenting our
information?
There are no rules about when to use attributes, and when to use an elements.
However, it is recommended not to use attribute as far as possible due to the
following reason:
• Too many attributes reduce the readability of an XML document.
• Attributes cannot contain multiple values (child elements can).
• Attributes are not easily expandable (for future changes).
• Attribute values are not easy to check against DTD
XML Schema Languages
• An XML Schema represents the interrelationship between the elements and
attributes in an XML document. An XML schema is a language for
expressing constraints on the structure and content of XML documents.
• There are several different schema languages W3C XML Schema, RELAX
NG and Document Type Defination (DTD) is one such XML Schema
Language.
• Two primary XML schema language, namely, DTD – which is very popular
and is widely used and W3C XML Schema- which is known to be an
extremely powerful schema language.
Document Type Defination (DTD) and XML Schema is in our syllabus.
Introduction to DTD
Document Type Defination (DTD) is one of several XML Schema Language.
Purpose Of DTD
As we know there are two types of XML document (i) Well-formed (ii)Valid
An XML document is said to be Valid with respect to DTD, if it confirms the
rules specified by a given XML DTD.
• The purpose of DTDs is to provide a framework for validating XML
documents.
• The purpose of a DTD is to define the legal building blocks of an XML
document.
• A DTD defines the document structure with a list of legal elements and
attributes.
• DTD used to specify a content model for each elements and attribute used in
an XML document.
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• DTD can’t specify all the constraints that may arise in XML document, But
Large number of constraints can be specified using XML Schema.
Using a DTD in an XML document
To validate XML document against a DTD, we should know how DTD and
XML documents are linked and where validator find the DTD.
The keyword DOCTYPE is used to make such link.
There are three ways to make this link:
1) The DTD can be embedded directly in the XML document as part of it-
called internal DTD.
2) From an XML document, a reference to an external file containing DTD can
be made- called external DTD.
3) Both internal and external DTD can be used.
Declaration of Simple element greeting:
<!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
Above line in our DTD allows the greeting element to contain non-markup data
in our XML document. So, following is a valid usage:
<greeting>Hello World!!</greeting>
PCDATA is the only available text type for simple element declaration.
Sometimes it is wrongly specified as CDATA. Text specified as CDATA will
not be parsed and tags/entities will not be treated as markups.
If we want to use some text that probably contains illegal character such as ‘<’,
‘>’ and ‘&’, then it can be embedded within “<![CDATA[“ and “]]>”.
JavaScript code contains illegal character, So it is good to use the CDATA
section to use JavaScript code in our XML document.
Example:
<code>
<!CDATA[
<script language="JavaScript">
fucntion less(x, y) {
return x<y;
}
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a=less(2,3);
</script>
]]>
</code>
in the above example, Everything inside CDATA section is ignored by the
parser.
Rules to be followed using CDATA section:
• A CDATA section can't contain the string "]]"
• The "<![CDATA[" and "]]>" which marks the beginning and end of CDATA
section can't contain spaces or line breaks.
• Nested CDATA section are neither allowed nor needed.
Example:
<!ELEMENT message (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT firstName (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT surname (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT dob (#PCDATA)>
Compound Elements
Compound element can contain other elements, an element contain one child
element. Here’s how we can do that:
<!ELEMENT element_name (child_element_name) >
Example:
<!ELEMENT employee (name) >
Above statement indicates the element employee contain another child element
name exactly once. The child element name must be declared separately.
Here is a complete declaration:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DCOTYPE employee [
<!-- 'employee have one child element 'name' -->
<!ELEMENT employee (name)>
<!-- namecontain only text -->
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
]>
<employee>
<name> UK Roy</name>
</employee>
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Occurrence indicators
Occurrence indicator specifies the number of times an element occurs in a
document.
When no occurrence indicator is specified, the child element must occur exactly
once in an XML document.
List of occurrence indicator:
• NONE – Exactly one occurrence
• *(Asterisk) - Zero or more occurrence
o Example: <!ELEMENT employee (contact*)>
Indicates that element employee can have child element contact any number of
times.
• + (Plus Sign) – One or More Occurrence. Occurs at least once within its
enclosing element.
o Example: <!ELEMENT employee (contact+)>
Indicates that company contain employee one or more times. A company can’t
exist without any employee.
o Consider element book, must have at least one author, can be declared as:
<! ELEMENT book (author+)>
• ?(Question Mark) – Zero or one Occurrence
o Example: <!ELEMENT employee (PAN?)>
Element employee can have optional PAN
Declaring Multiple children
Elements with multiple children declared with the names of the child elements
inside parenthesis. The child elements must also be declared.
Operators which can be specified when declaring elements with multiple
children:
, [sequence] – a followed by b
| [choice] –
() [singleton]
Declaring Multiple children
Elements with multiple children declared with the names of the child elements
inside parenthesis. The child elements must also be declared.
Operators which can be specified when declaring elements with multiple
children:
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Sequence operator [ , ]
The sequence operator ( , ) is used to enforce the ordering of child elements.
The general syntax fo using sequence operator is:
<!ELEMENT parent (expr1, expr2, expr3, …) >
expr1, expr2, expr3… must occur in the document in the order as specified.
Example:
<! ELEMENT employee (firstName, middleName, lastName) >
<!ELEMENT firstName (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT middleName (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT lastName (#PCDATA) >
Above declaration requires firstName followed by middleName and lastName.
So the following XML document fragment is valid:
<employee>
<firstName>Uttam</firstName>
<middleName>Kumar</middleName>
<lastName>Roy</lastName>
</employee>
But, the following is not valid:
<employee>
<firstName>Uttam</firstName>
<lastName>Roy</lastName>
<middleName>Kumar</middleName>
</employee>
Choice Operator [ | ]
The choice operator ( | ) is used to select one from among choices separated by
‘|’ symbol.
General Syntax of using choice operator:
<!ELEMENT parent (expr1 | expr2 | expr3 | …) >
expr1 | expr2 | expr3 | … can occur as the child of the element parent.
Example:
<! ELEMENT product (price | discountprice) >
In above declaration, element product can have either price or discountprice as
child.
<! ELEMENT tutorial (name | title | subject) >
Element tutorial can have either a name, a title or a subject but not all
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Composite Operator [ () ]
An expression surrounded by parenthesis is treated as single unit (singleton) and
could have any one of the following occurrence indicator : ? , * , or + .
Example:
<! ELEMENT biodata (dob, (company , title) * , contact + ) >
<!ELEMENT dob (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT company (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT contact (#PCDATA) >
In the above example, company and title form a single unit. The biodata element
can contain Zero or more such units.
ATTRIBUTE DECLARATION
• If an element have attributes, we have to declare the name of the attributes in
DTD.
• An XML attribute is always in the form of a (name, value) pair with element.
• Attributes are useful as it gives more information about an element.
• Attributes declaration is done with ATTLIST declarations.
• A single ATTLIST can declare multiple attributes for a single element type.
• The declaration starts with ATTLIST followed by the name of the element
the attributes are associated with, and the declaration of the individual
attributes.
Syntax
Syntax of Attributes declaration is as follows:
<!ATTLIST element-name attribute-name attribute-type default-value>
where, element-name specifies the name of the element to which the attribute
attribute-name applies.
Example:
<!ELEMENT line EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST line width CDATA '100'>
This specifies the element line has an optional attribute width with value '100', if
attribute is not mentioned.
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Rules to be followed while declaring an Attribute:
• The keyword ATTLIST must be in upper case
• All attributes used in an XML document must be declared in the Document
Type Definition (DTD)
• Attributes may only appear in start or empty tags.
• An element can have any number of Attributes.
Default value of Attribute
Default – This is optional means XML document author may or may not provide
this attribute.
Default value is enclosed in a single or double quote.
Example:
<! ATTLIST line width CDATA ‘100’>
This declaration says that the attribute width is optional. If the value of this
attribute is specified then the value of this attribute will be the value specified. If
it does not occur, width attribute will get the value 100 from XML processor.
<line width=’200’ /> width attribute is specified with value 200
<line /> no width attribute is specified, XML processor will put value 100
#REQUIRED
This means that the attribute must be specified with a value every time the
element is listed.
#REQUIRED keyword is used to specify that the attribute must be provided.
<! ATTLIST price currency CDATA #REQUIRED> //currency must appear
for price
Example:
<price currency=’INR’>100</price> VALID
<price>100</price> NOT VALID
XML Schemas
The purpose of an XML Schema is to define the legal building blocks of an
XML document. It is used to represent data types of an XML document. It is an
alternative to DTD (Document Type Definition). XML Schema defines
elements, attributes and vales of elements and attributes.
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An XML Schema:
• defines elements that can appear in a document
• defines attributes that can appear in a document
• defines which elements are child elements
• defines the order of child elements
• defines the number of child elements
• defines whether an element is empty or can include text
• defines data types for elements and attributes
• defines default and fixed values for elements and attributes
XML Schemas Data Types
One of the greatest strength of XML Schemas is the support for data types.
Using XML schema it is easier to describe allowable document content; it is
easier to validate the correctness of data; it is easier to convert data between
different data types.
Built in data types supported by XML schema
XML Schema has a lot of built-in data types.
The most common types are:
• xs:string
• xs:decimal
• xs:integer
• xs:boolean
• xs:date
• xs:time
There are two classes of XML schema data types:
• Complex type is a data type is represented using markup.
• Simple type is a data type whose values are represented in XML doc by
character data.
XML markup such as <types> is known as XML schema that conforms to W3C
defined XML schema vocabulary which defines all or part of the vocabulary for
another XML document. The <schema> is the root element for any XML
schema document. The child elements of schema define the data types.
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Example for writing a simple XML Schema
Step 1: Write a xsd file in which the desired structure of the XML document is
defined and named it as StudentSchema.xsd.
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs=” URL”>
<xs:element name=”student” >
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name=”name” value=”xs:string” />
<xs:element name=”regno” value=”xs:string” />
<xs:element name=”dept” value=”xs:string” />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
The xs qualifier used to identify the schema elements and its types. The
xs:schema is the root element. It takes the attributes xmlns:xs which has the
value, “http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema. This declaration indicates that
the document follows the rule of XMLSchema defined by W3 in year 2001.
The xs:element is used to define the xml element. The Student element is
complexType which has three child elements:name, regno and dept. All these
elements are of simple type string.
Step 2: Write a XML document and reference the xsd file. Named it as
myXML.xml
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<student xmlns:xsi=”URL”
xsi:schemaLocation=”StudentSchema.xsd”>
<name> Raj </name>
<regno>3212654556</regno>
<dept>CSE</dept></student>
The following code, xsi:schemaLocation=”StudentSchema.xsd” is used to
reference the XML schema document (xsd) file which contains the definition of
this xml document.
Various xml validation tools are available which can be used to validate xml and
its schema document.
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Advantages
• Supports data types
• Supports namespaces
• XML schemas support a set of data types, similar to the ones used in most
common programming languages
• Provides the ability to define custom data types
• Easy to describe allowable content in the document
• Easy to validate the correctness of data
• Object oriented approach like inheritance and encapsulation can be used in
creating the document
• Easier to convert data between different data types
• Easy to define data formats
• Easy to define restrictions on data
• It is written in xml so any xml editor can be used to edit xml schema
Xml Parser can be used to parse the schema file
• XML schemas are more powerful than DTDs. Everything that can be defined
by the DTD can also be defined by schemas, but not vice versa.
Disadvantages
• Complex to design and learn
• Maintaining XML schema for large XML document slows down the
processing of XML document
DTD for the above xml file instead of XML schema
The purpose of a DTD (Document Type Definition) is to define the legal
building blocks of an XML document.
A DTD defines the document structure with a list of legal elements and
attributes.
Step 1: Create a DTD. Name it as student.dtd
<!ELEMENT student(name, regno, dept)>
<!ELEMENT name(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT regno(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT dept(#PCDATA)>
!ELEMENT student defines that the note element contains three elements:
"name. regno, dept"
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PCDATA means parsed character data which is the text found between the start
tag and the end tag of an XML element.
Step 2: Write the XML document and reference the DTD file in it. Name it as
myXML.xml
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<!DOCTYPE student SYSTEM student.dtd>
<student>
<name> Raj </name>
<regno>3212654556</regno>
<dept>CSE</dept>
</student>
!DOCTYPE student defines that the root element of this document is student and
links the myXML.xml file with the student.dtd file.
Document Object Model:
Document Object Model is for defining the standard for accessing and
manipulating
XML documents. XML DOM is used for
• Loading the xml document
• Accessing the xml document
• Deleting the elements of xml document
• Changing the elements of xml document
According to the DOM, everything in an XML document is a node. It
considers
• The entire document is a document node
• Every XML element is an element node
• The text in the XML elements are text nodes
• Every attribute is an attribute node
• Comments are comment nodes
DOM Levels
• Level 1 Core: W3C Recommendation, October 1998
o It has feature for primitive navigation and manipulation of XML trees
o other Level 1 features are: All HTML features
• Level 2 Core: W3C Recommendation, November 2000
o It adds Namespace support and minor new features
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o other Level 2 features are: Events, Views, Style, Traversal and Range
• Level 3 Core: W3C Working Draft, April 2002
o It supports: Schemas, XPath, XSL, XSLT
We can access and parse the XML document in two ways:
o Parsing using DOM (tree based)
o Parsing using SAX (Event based)
Parsing the XML doc. using DOM methods and properties are called as tree
based approach whereas using SAX (Simple Api for Xml) methods and
properties are called as event based approach.
DOM based XML Parsing:(tree based)
JAXP is a tool, stands for Java Api for Xml Processing, used for accessing and
manipulating xml document in a tree based manner.
In this approach, to access XML document, the document object model
implementation is defined in the following packages:
• javax.xml.parsers
• org.w3c.dom
The following DOM java Classes are necessary to process the XML document:
• DocumentBuilderFactory class creates the instance of DocumentBuilder.
• DocumentBuilder produces a Document (a DOM) that conforms to the
DOM specification
Parsing XML Data: DOM and SAX Parser in JAVA
DOM Parser
An alternative to SAX approach is DOM. In a XML processor, the parser builds
the DOM tree for an XML document. The nodes of the tree are represented as
objects that can be accessed and manipulated by the application.
The advantages of DOM over SAX are:
• DOM is better for accessing a part of an XML document more than once.
• DOM is better for rearranging (sorting) the elements in a XML document.
• DOM is best for random access over SAX's sequential access.
• DOM can detect invalid nodes later in the document without any further
processing.
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The disadvantages of DOM over SAX are:
• DOM structure (tree) is stored entirely in the memory, so large XML
documents require more memory.
• Large documents cannot be parsed using DOM.
• DOM is slower when compared to SAX.
Below is an example Java program which reads an XML document using DOM
API:
//file.xml - XML document
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<company>
<staff id="1001">
<firstname>yong</firstname>
<lastname>mook kim</lastname>
<nickname>mkyong</nickname>
<salary>100000</salary>
</staff>
<staff id="2001">
<firstname>low</firstname>
<lastname>yin fong</lastname>
<nickname>fong fong</nickname>
<salary>200000</salary>
</staff>
</company>
//ReadXMLFile.java - Java File
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import
org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import java.io.File;
public class ReadXMLFile {
public static void main(String argv[]) { try {
File fXmlFile = new File("/Users/mkyong/staff.xml"); DocumentBuilderFactory
dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder
dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
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Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
System.out.println("Root element :" +
doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList nList =
doc.getElementsByTagName("staff");
System.out.println("----------------------------");
for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) { Node nNode =
nList.item(temp);
System.out.println("\nCurrent Element :" + nNode.getNodeName()); if
(nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
Element eElement = (Element) nNode; System.out.println("Staff id : " +
eElement.getAttribute("id"));
System.out.println("First Name : " +
eElement.getElementsByTagName("firstname").item(0).getTextContent());
System.out.println("Last Name : " +
eElement.getElementsByTagName("lastname").item(0).getTextContent());
System.out.println("Nick Name : " +
eElement.getElementsByTagName("nickname").item(0).getTextContent());
System.out.println("Salary : " +
eElement.getElementsByTagName("salary").item(0).getTextContent());
}
}
} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();
}}}
Output:
Root element :company
----------------------------
Current Element :staff Staff id : 1001
First Name : yong
Last Name : mook kim Nick Name : mkyong Salary : 100000
Current Element :staff Staff id : 2001
First Name : low Last Name : yin fong
Nick Name : fong fong Salary : 200000
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SAX Parser
SAX stands for Simple API for XML
SAX provides a mechanism for reading data from an XML document, SAX
parsers operate on each piece of the XML document sequentially.
It is a kind of event oriented approach for parsing the xml document.
An XML tree is not viewed as a data structure, but as a stream of events
generated by the parser.
The kinds of events are:
• the start of the document is encountered
• the end of the document is encountered
• the start tag of an element is encountered
• the end tag of an element is encountered
• character data is encountered
• a processing instruction is encountered
Scanning the XML file from start to end, each event invokes a corresponding
callback method that the programmer writes.
SAX packages
• javax.xml.parsers: Describing the main classes needed for parsing
• org.xml.sax: Describing few interfaces for parsing
SAX classes
• SAXParser Defines the API that wraps an XMLReader implementation class
• SAXParserFactory Defines a factory API that enables applications to
configure and obtain a SAX based parser to parse XML documents
• ContentHandler Receive notification of the logical content of a document.
• DTDHandler Receive notification of basic DTD-related events.
• EntityResolver Basic interface for resolving entities.
• ErrorHandler Basic interface for SAX error handlers.
• DefaultHandler Default base class for SAX event handlers.
SAX parser methods
• startDocument() and endDocument() – methods called at the start and end of
an XML document.
• startElement() and endElement() – methods called at the start and end of a
document element.
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• characters() – method called with the text contents in between the start and
end tags of an XML document element.
The SAX approach to processing is known as event processing. The processor
scans the document from beginning to end sequentially. Every time a syntactic
structure like opening tag, attributes, text or a closing tag is recognized, the
processor signals an event to the application by calling an event handler for the
particular structure that was found. The interfaces that describe the event
handlers form the SAX API.
Below is an example Java program which reads an XML document using SAX
API:
//file.xml - XML document
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<company>
<staff>
<firstname>yong</firstname>
<lastname>mook kim</lastname>
<nickname>mkyong</nickname>
<salary>100000</salary>
</staff>
<staff>
<firstname>low</firstname>
<lastname>yin fong</lastname>
<nickname>fong fong</nickname>
<salary>200000</salary>
</staff>
</company>
//ReadXMLFile.java - Java File import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class ReadXMLFile {
public static void main(String argv[]) { try {
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SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser
saxParser = factory.newSAXParser(); DefaultHandler handler = new
DefaultHandler() {
boolean bfname = false; boolean blname = false; boolean bnname = false;
boolean bsalary = false;
public void startElement(String uri, String localName,String qName, Attributes
attributes) throws SAXException {
System.out.println("Start Element :" + qName); if
(qName.equalsIgnoreCase("FIRSTNAME")) {
bfname = true;
} if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("LASTNAME")) { blname = true;
} if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("NICKNAME")) { bnname = true;
} if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("SALARY")) { bsalary = true;
}}
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws
SAXException { System.out.println("End Element :" + qName);
}public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException { if
(bfname) {
System.out.println("First Name : " + new String(ch, start, length)); bfname =
false;
}if (blname) {
System.out.println("Last Name : " + new String(ch, start, length)); blname =
false;
}if (bnname) {
System.out.println("Nick Name : " + new String(ch, start, length));
bnname = false;
}if (bsalary) {
System.out.println("Salary : " + new String(ch, start, length)); bsalary = false;
}}};
saxParser.parse("c:\\file.xml", handler);
}catch (Exception e)
{e.printStackTrace();
}}}
Output:
Start Element :company Start Element :staff Start Element :firstname First
Name : yong
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End Element :firstname Start Element :lastname Last Name : mook kim End
Element :lastname Start Element :nickname Nick Name : mkyong End Element
:nickname Start Element :salary Salary : 100000
End Element :salary End Element :staff Start Element :staff
Start Element :firstname First Name : low
End Element :firstname Start Element :lastname Last Name : yin fong End
Element :lastname Start Element :nickname Nick Name : fong fong End
Element :nickname Start Element :salary Salary : 200000
End Element :salary End Element :staff
End Element :company
OBJECTIVEQUESTIONS
01. What does XML stand for?
(A) eXtra Modern Link
(B) eXtensible Markup Language
(C) Example Markup Language
(D) X-Markup Language
01. Answer: (B)
02. What is the correct syntax of the declaration which defines the XML version?
(A) <xml version="A.0" />
(B) <?xml version="A.0"?>
(C) <?xml version="A.0" />
(D) None of the above
02. Answer: (B)
03. Which statement is true?
(A) All the statements are true
(B) All XML elements must have a closing tag
(C) All XML elements must be lower case
(D) All XML documents must have a DTD
03. Answer: (B)
04. Is it easier to process XML than HTML?
(A)Yes (B) No
(C) Sometimes (D) Cant say
04. Answer: (A)
05. Which of the following programs support XML or XML applications?
(A) Internet Explorer 5.5 (B) Netscape D.7
(C) RealPlayer. (D) both A and B
05. Answer: (D)
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06. Kind of Parsers are
(A) Ans: C well-formed
(B) well-documented
(C) non-validating and validating
(D) none of the above
06. Answer: (C)
07. Well formed XML document means
(A) it contains a root element
(B) it contain an element
(C) it contains one or more elements
(D) must contain one or more elements and root element must contain all
other elements
07. Answer: D
08. Comment in XML document is given by
(A) <?-- --> (B) <!-- --!>
(C) <!-- --> (D) </-- -- >
08. Answer: (C)
09. When processing an output XML, "new line" symbols
(A) Are copied into output "as is", i.e. "CR+LF" for Windows, CR for
Macintosh, LF for Unix.
(B) are converted to single LF symbol
(C) are converted to single CR symbol
(D) are discarded
09. Answer: (D)
10. Which of the following strings are correct XML names?
(A) _myElement (B) my Element
(C) #myElement (D) None of the above
10. Answer: (D)
11. Valid XML document means (most appropriate)
(A) the document has root element
(B) the document contains atleast one or more root element
(C) the XML document has DTD associated with it & it complies with that
DTD
(D) Each element must nest inside any enclosing element property
11. Answer: (C)
12. XML uses the features of
(A) HTML (B) XHTML
(C) VML (D) SGML
12. Answer: (D)
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13. There is a way of describing XML data, how?
(A) XML uses a DTD to describe the data
(B) XML uses XSL to describe data
(C) XML uses a description node to describe data
(D) Both A and C
13. Answer: D
14. Which of the following XML documents are well-formed?
(A) <firstElement>some text goes here <secondElement>another text goes
here</secondElement>
</firstElement>
(B) <firstElement>some text goes here</firstElement>
<secondElement> another text goes here</secondElement>
(C) <firstElement>some text goes here
<secondElement> another text goes here</firstElement>
</secondElement>
(D) </firstElement>some text goes here
</secondElement>another text goes here
<firstElement>
14. Answer: (A)
15. Which of the following XML fragments are well-formed?
(A) <myElement myAttribute="someValue"/>
(B) <myElement myAttribute=someValue/>
(C) <myElement myAttribute=’someValue’>
(D) <myElement myAttribute="someValue’/>
15. Answer: (A)]
16. How can we make attributes have multiple values:
(A) <myElement myAttribute="value1 value2"/>
(B) <myElement myAttribute="value1" myAttribute="value2"/>
(C) <myElement myAttribute="value1, value2"/>
(D) attributes cannot have multiple values
16. Answer: (D)
17. Which of the following XML fragments are well-formed?
(A) <myElement myAttribute="value1 <= value2"/>
(B) <myElement myAttribute="value1 & value2"/>
(C) <myElement myAttribute="value1 > value2"/>
(D) None of the above
17. Answer: (C)
18. The use of a DTD in XML development is:
(A) required when validating XML documents
(B) no longer necessary after the XML editor has been customized
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(C) used to direct conversion using an XSLT processor
(D) a good guide to populating a templates to be filled in when generating
an XML document automatically
18. Answer: (A)
19. Parameter entities can appear in
(A) xml file (B) dtd file
(C) xsl file (D) Both 1 and 2
19. Answer: (B)
20. Attribute standalone="no" should be included in XML declaration if a
document
(A) is linked to an external XSL stylesheet
(B) has external general references
(C) has processing instructions
(D) has an external DTD
20. Answer: (B)
ASSIGNMENT QUESTION BANK
PART – A (SHORT ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. Define an xml scheme show how an XML Scheme can be created
02. How do you define the elements of an XML document in an XML Schema?
03. Explain is XML? What are the advantages of xml?
04. Explain are the different revolution in which XML is playing a major role?
05. Explain and show how XML is useful in defining data for web applications.
06. Explain the various terms related to Document Type Definition.
07. Design an XML schema for hospital information management. Include every
feature available with schema.
08. Explain how styling XML with cascading style sheets is done for the library
information domain.
09. Discuss the important features of XML which make it more suitable than
HTML for creating web related services Creating A
10. What is DOM and SAX?
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PART – B (LONG ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. Explain and show how XML is useful in defining data for web applications.
02. Explain the various terms related to Document Type Definition.
03. Design an XML schema for hospital information management. Include every
feature available with schema.
04. Explain how styling XML with cascading style sheets is done for the library
information domain.
05. Discuss the important features of XML which make it more Suitable than
HTML for creating web related services.
06. Define an xml scheme show how an XML Scheme can be created
07. Write a JavaScript program to validate XML document against a schema?
08. When an element is called simple? How does it differ from a complex
element?
09. How do you define the elements of an XML document in an XML Schema?
10. How do you set default and fixed values for simple Elements?
PART – C (PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS)
01. Try an XML program to print the food menu.
02. Implement xml in doing CD catalog.
TUTORIALS QUESTION BANK
PART – A (SHORT ANSWERQUESTIONS
01. What is XML?
02. What is the difference between XML and HTML?
03. What is a well-formed XML document?
04. What is a valid XML document?
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05. What is a Processing Instruction in XML?
06. How does the XML structure is defined?
07. What is DTD? .
08. What is a Complex Element? .
09. What is a Simple Element? .
10. What are namespaces? Why are they important?
PART – B (LONG ANSWERQUESTIONS)
01. How XSL-FO Works (or) How would you produce PDF output using
XSL’s?
02. Explain XSLT? Understanding e
03. What is a CDATA section in XML? .
04. What is XML parser? .
05. What are the interfaces of SAX? .
PART – C (PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS)
01. Explain XSLT? Understanding e
02. What is a CDATA section in XML? .
03. What is XML parser? .
04. What are the interfaces of SAX? .
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