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PHP Basic MCQ

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This is the questions and answers section on "PHP Basics" with explanation for various interview, competitive examination and entrance test. Solved examples with detailed answer description, explanation are given and it would be easy to understand. ➲ PHP Basic MCQ - Quiz

Q 1: What does PHP stand for?
i) Personal Home Page
ii) Hypertext Preprocessor
iii) Pretext Hypertext Processor
iv) Preprocessor Home Page

  • A Both (i) and (ii)
  • B Both (ii) and (iv)
  • C Only (ii)
  • D Both (i) and (iii)

Q 2: Who is the father of PHP?

  • A Rasmus Lerdorf
  • B Willam Makepiece
  • C Drek Kolkevi
  • D List Barely

Q 3: PHP files have a default file extension of.

  • A .html
  • B .xml
  • C .php
  • D .ph

Q 4: A PHP script should start with ___ and end with ___:

  • A < php >
  • B < ? php ?>
  • C < ? ? >
  • D < ?php ? >

Q 5: Which of the looping statements is/are supported by PHP?
i) for loop
ii) while loop
iii) do-while loop
iv) foreach loop

  • A (i) and (ii)
  • B (i), (ii) and (iii)
  • C All of the mentioned
  • D None of the mentioned

Q 6: Which of the following is/are a PHP code editor?
i) Notepad
ii) Notepad++
iii) Adobe Dreamweaver
iv) PDT

  • A Only (iv)
  • B All of the mentioned.
  • C (i), (ii) and (iii)
  • D Only (iii)

Q 7: Which of the following must be installed on your computer so as to run PHP script?
i) Adobe Dreamweaver
ii) PHP
iii) Apache
iv) IIS

  • A All of the mentioned
  • B Only (ii)
  • C (ii) and (iii)
  • D (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Q 8: Which version of PHP introduced Try/catch Exception?

  • A PHP 4
  • B PHP 5
  • C PHP 5.3
  • D PHP 6

Q 9: We can use ___ to comment a single line? 
i) /?
ii) //
iii) #
iv) /* */

  • A Only (ii)
  • B (i), (iii) and (iv)
  • C (ii), (iii) and (iv)
  • D Both (ii) and (iv)

Q 10: Which of the below symbols is a newline character?

  • A \r
  • B \n
  • C /n
  • D /r

Q 11: Which of the following php statement/statements will store 111 in variable num?
i) int $num = 111;
ii) int mum = 111;
iii) $num = 111;
iv) 111 = $num;

  • A Both (i) and (ii)
  • B All of the mentioned.
  • C Only (iii)
  • D Only (i)

Q 12: What will be the output of the following php code 
< ?php 
$num  = 1;
$num1 = 2;
print $num . "+". $num1 ;
?>

  • A 3
  • B 1+2
  • C 1.+.2
  • D Error

Q 13: What will be the output of the following php code? 
< ?php 
$num  = "1";
$num1 = "2";
print $num+$num1 ;
?>

  • A 3
  • B 1+2
  • C Error
  • D 12

Q 14: Which of following variables can be assigned a value to it?
(i) $3hello
(ii) $_hello
(iii) $this
(iv) $This

  • A All of the mentioned
  • B nly (ii)
  • C (ii), (iii) and (iv)
  • D (ii) and (iv)

Q 15: What will be the output of the following code? 
< ?php 
$foo = 'Bob';              
$bar = &$foo;              
$bar = "My name is $bar";  
echo $bar;
echo $foo;
?>

  • A Error
  • B My name is BobBob
  • C My name is BobMy name is Bob
  • D My name is Bob Bob

Q 16: If $a = 12 what will be returned when ($a == 12) ? 5 : 1 is executed?

  • A 12
  • B 1
  • C Error
  • D 5

Q 17: Which of the following PHP statements will output Hello World on the screen?
(i) echo (“Hello World”);
(ii) print (“Hello World”);
(iii) printf (“Hello World”);
(iv) sprintf (“Hello World”);

  • A (i) and (ii)
  • B (i), (ii) and (iii)
  • C All of the mentioned
  • D (i), (ii) and (iv)

Q 18: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
$color = "maroon";
$var = $color[2];
echo "$var" ;
?>

  • A a
  • B Error
  • C $var
  • D r

Q 19: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
$score = 1234;
$scoreboard = (array) $score;
echo $scoreboard[0];
?>

  • A 1
  • B Error
  • C 1234
  • D 2

Q 20: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
$total = "25 students";
$more = 10;
$total = $total + $more;
echo "$total" ;
?>

  • A Error
  • B 35 students
  • C 35
  • D 25 students

Q 21: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
    $team = "arsenal";
    switch ($team) {
    case "manu":
        echo "I love man u";
    case "arsenal":
        echo "I love arsenal";
    case "manc":
        echo "I love manc"; }
?>

  • A I love arsenal
  • B Error
  • C I love arsenalI love manc
  • D I love arsenalI love mancI love manu

Q 22: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
$a = "clue";
$a .= "get";
echo "$a";
?>

  • A get
  • B true
  • C false
  • D clueget

Q 23: What will be the output of the following code? 
< ?php 
function track() {
static $count = 0;
$count++;
echo $count ;
}
track();
track();
track();
?>

  • A 123
  • B 111
  • C 000
  • D 011

Q 24: Which statement will output $x on the screen?

  • A echo
  • B echo
  • C echo
  • D echo

Q 25: Which of the below statements is equivalent to $add += $add ?

  • A $add = $add
  • B $add = $add +$add
  • C $add = $add + 1
  • D $add = $add + $add + 1

Q 26: What will be the output of the following PHP code? 
< ?php 
    $num = 10;
    echo 'What is her age? \n She is $num years old';
?>

  • A What is her age? \n She is $num years old
  • B What is her age? She is $num years old
  • C What is her age? She is 10 years old
  • D What is her age? She is 10 years old