[webdesigner93]

Ok imma start out by explaining what a php function is a function in php basicly can be used to hold blocks of code that you wanna use more then one time in your scripts. To start a function you write out the word

function

like so then you give the function a name

function mycat()

{
//Block of code goes here
}

So say you wanted to have a function that protects variables when inserted in a database you could do this

function protect($value){
$value = mysql_real_escape_string($value);

return $value;

}

So this code creates a function that uses mysql_real_escape_string to protect any variable you might like if your inserting it into a database to use this function just call it like this.

$myvariable = protect($_POST['name']);

So as you can see we wrapped our function around $_POST['name'] this will protect whatever value name is when inserted into a mysql database.

To simply output something that is inside a function you would do this

function hello(){
echo "HELLO WORLD!";

}

Then call this function like this

hello();

And that when ran will print out HELLO WORLD!

so this was a short tutorial on functions and how to
use them in php if you
like this tutorial give me a +1 thanks

[weblearner]

You can find a good tutorial at http://www.w3shools.com/



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[Zahid Habib]

Nice tutorial.Thanks

[Anshuman]

Not only php functions,also array functions, also sql queries you can find here http://php.net/manual/en/index.php>
Just go to the link and download it and then you can type any functions in php you can find here.