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Definitions

Parsing - A process by which programming data is broken into smaller, more distinct chunks of information that can be more easily interpreted and acted on.

A process by which programming data is broken into smaller, more distinct chunks of information that can be more easily interpreted and acted on.
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The process the command processor performs to analyze the command line, perform alias, function and variable expansion, and find the appropriate internal command or external command to execute. ...
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The process of analyzing a source program syntactically to determine its phrase structure.
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The use of algorithms to analyze data into components.
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Parsing is the act whereby a document is scanned, and the information contained within the document is filtered into the context of the elements in which the information is structured.
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OOP (Object Oriented Programming) -

An approach to programming which involves the building of abstracted code objects designed to interact with each other. ...
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A style of programming that supports encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Some languages are inherently object oriented (eg, Smalltalk and Java) while other languages support object oriented extensions (eg, C++ and Visual Basic). ...
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a class of programming languages and techniques based on the concept of an “object” which is a data structure encapsulated with a set of routines which operate on the data. C++ and Java are object oriented programs.
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A computer programming technique in which the algorithm is implemented based on the objects instead of variable.
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Syntax -

The rules of a language which determine what is and is not acceptable to the compiler.
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The grammatical rules of a programming language.
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The study of how sentences are formed and of the grammatical rules that govern their formation; the pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses, and phrases.
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Variables -

Variables in PHP are represented by a dollar sign followed by the name of the variable. The variable name is case-sensitive.

Variable names follow the same rules as other labels in PHP. A valid variable name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would be expressed thus: '[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*'

A storage location with a name that can be assigned a value.
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Constant

A constant is an identifier (name) for a simple value. As the name suggests, that value cannot change during the execution of the script (except for magic constants, which aren't actually constants). A constant is case-sensitive by default. By convention, constant identifiers are always uppercase.

The name of a constant follows the same rules as any label in PHP. A valid constant name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would be expressed thusly: [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*

String

A string is series of characters. In PHP, a character is the same as a byte, that is, there are exactly 256 different characters possible. This also implies that PHP has no native support of Unicode. See utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() for some Unicode support.

Integers

An integer is a number of the set Z = {..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...}.

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