{"id":386,"date":"2021-02-21T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codeflarelimited.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:50:46","slug":"function-parameters-in-php-fast-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codeflarelimited.com\/blog\/function-parameters-in-php-fast-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Function Parameters in PHP | Fast &#038; Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/codeflarelimited.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/working-with-functions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Function<\/a> parameters in PHP are small units of a program which can take some input in the form of parameters and does some processing and may return a value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You declare a function parameter after the function name, and inside a parenthesis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can declare function parameters in PHP in much the same way as  you declare a variable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us write a program that multiplies a value by 10 and return the value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-function-parameters-example\">Function Parameters Example<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"php\" class=\"language-php\">&lt;?php\nfunction multiply($value){\n$value = $value * 10;\nreturn $value;\n}\n\n$result = multiply(10);\necho \"The return value is \".$result;\n?&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>PHP is a robust and extremely popular server-side language that is one of the most popular open source programming languages for dynamic web applications and software development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/codeflarelimited.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Begin your software development training<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/docs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See PHP documentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Function parameters in PHP are small units of a program which can take some input in the form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[91,60,48],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-php","tag-function-parameters-in-php","tag-functions","tag-php"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Function Parameters in PHP | Fast &amp; 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