What is Operators
Operators are symbols that tell the PHP engine to manipulate or perform operations on variables and values.
For example 1+2. 1 and are called operands and + is called operator.
PHP language supports following type of operators:
- Arithmetic Operators
- Bitwise Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Incrementing and Decrementing Operators
- Conditional Operator
- String Operators
- Array Operators
- Type Operators
- Execution Operators
- Error Control Operators
- Spaceship Operator
Operators can also be grouped according to the number of values they take.
- Unary operators: work with one operands.for example ! or ++
- Binary operators: take two operands, such as + (plus) and - (minus)
- Ternary operator: there is a single ternary operator, ? :
