In PHP, concatenation is done by using the concatenation operator (".")
which is a dot.
The php developers widely use the concatenation operator, it helps them to join string in their day to the day programming task.
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Understand PHP Concatenate Operator
PHP offers two types of string operators to deal with string concatenation.
Operator | Detail |
---|---|
(".") |
The dot concatenation operator in PHP concatenate its right and left arguments. |
('.=') |
This second concatenation operator helps in appending the right side argument to the left side argument. |
Concatenate Two Strings in PHP
You can combine two strings in PHP using the concatenate operator, check out the code example below:
<?php
$string1 = 'John';
$string2 = 'Doe';
$name_str = $string1 . ' ' . $string2;
echo $name_str;
?>
// Result: John Doe
Concatenate Two Variables in PHP
In this php tutorial, we will now learn to concatenate two variables, in the following example we have declared the two variables $var1
and $var2
. Then in the $JOIN_VAR
variable we are adding the content of both the variables:
<?php
$var_1 = "Tony Stark";
$var_2 = "MCU";
$JOIN_VAR = $var_1." ".$var_2." ";
echo $JOIN_VAR;
?>
Output will be:
// Result: Tony Stark MCU
Concatenating variable with string in PHP
In this example we are Concatenating single variable with string:
<?php
$var = "Hello";
echo $var.' World';
?>
// Result: Hello World
Concatenate Two Arrays in PHP
In this example, we will learn how to merge or join two arrays using the PHP array_merge() method. This method will allow us to combine 2 arrays data into one array.
<?php
$myArr1 = array(1, "tv" => "ac", 2, "washing machine", 3);
$myArr2 = array("word", "abc", "vegetable" => "tomato", "state" => "washington dc");
// Join arrays
$output = array_merge($myArr1, $myArr2);
print_r($output);
?>
Check out the result below:
Array
(
[0] => 1
[tv] => ac
[1] => 2
[2] => washing machine
[3] => 3
[4] => word
[5] => abc
[vegetable] => tomato
[state] => washington dc
)
Finally, we are done with PHP concatenating String, Variable and Arrays tutorials, I have tried to explain almost every possible scenario; however, If i have missed anything you can visit official PHP site to explore more.