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PHP classes [7 exercises with solution]

1. Write a simple PHP class which displays the following string. Go to the editor

'MyClass class has initialized !'
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2. Write a simple PHP class which displays an introductory message like "Hello All, I am Scott", where "Scott" is an argument value of the method within the class. Go to the editor
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3. Write a PHP class that calculates the factorial of an integer. Go to the editor
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4. Write a PHP class that sorts an ordered integer array with the help of sort() function.
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Sample array : array(11, -2, 4, 35, 0, 8, -9)
Output : Array ( [0] => -9 [1] => -2 [2] => 0 [3] => 4 [4] => 8 [5] => 11 [6] => 35 )
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5. Calculate the difference between two dates using PHP OOP approach. Go to the editor
Sample Dates : 1981-11-03, 2013-09-04
Expected Result : Difference : 31 years, 10 months, 1 days
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6. Write a PHP Calculator class which will accept two values as arguments, then add them, subtract them, multiply them together, or divide them on request. Go to the editor
For example :
$mycalc = new MyCalculator( 12, 6);
echo $mycalc- > add(); // Displays 18
echo $mycalc- > multiply(); // Displays 72
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7. Write a PHP script to convert a string to Date and DateTime. Go to the editor
Sample Date : '12-08-2004'
Expected Output : 2004-12-08
Note : PHP considers '/' to mean m/d/Y format and '-' to mean d-m-Y format.
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PHP: Tips of the Day

Members of objects or classes can be accessed using the object operator (->) and the class operator (::).

Example:

class MyClass {
 public $a = 1;
 public static $b = 2;
 const C = 3;
 public function d() { return 4; }
 public static function e() { return 5; }
}
$object = new MyClass();
var_dump($object->a); // int(1)
var_dump($object::$b); // int(2)
var_dump($object::C); // int(3)
var_dump(MyClass::$b); // int(2)
var_dump(MyClass::C); // int(3)
var_dump($object->d()); // int(4)
var_dump($object::d()); // int(4)
var_dump(MyClass::e()); // int(5)
$classname = "MyClass"; 
var_dump($classname::e()); // also works! int(5)

Note that after the object operator, the $ should not be written ($object->a instead of $object->$a). For the class operator, this is not the case and the $ is necessary. For a constant defined in the class, the $ is never used.

Also note that var_dump(MyClass::d()); is only allowed if the function d() does not reference the object:

class MyClass {
 private $a = 1;
 public function d() {
 return $this->a;
 }
}
$object = new MyClass();
var_dump(MyClass::d()); // Error!

This causes a 'PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Using $this when not in object context'

These operators have left associativity, which can be used for 'chaining':

class MyClass {
 private $a = 1;

 public function add(int $a) {
 $this->a += $a;
 return $this;
 }

 public function get() {
 return $this->a;
 }
}
$object = new MyClass();
var_dump($object->add(4)->get()); // int(5)

These operators have the highest precedence (they are not even mentioned in the manual), even higher that clone. Thus:

class MyClass {
 private $a = 0;
 public function add(int $a) {
 $this->a += $a;
 return $this;
 }
 public function get() {
 return $this->a;
 }
}
$o1 = new MyClass();
$o2 = clone $o1->add(2);
var_dump($o1->get()); // int(2)
var_dump($o2->get()); // int(2)

The value of $o1 is added to before the object is cloned!

Note that using parentheses to influence precedence did not work in PHP version 5 and older (it does in PHP 7):

// using the class MyClass from the previous code
$o1 = new MyClass();
$o2 = (clone $o1)->add(2); // Error in PHP 5 and before, fine in PHP 7
var_dump($o1->get()); // int(0) in PHP 7
var_dump($o2->get()); // int(2) in PHP 7