PHP MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Here are 1000 MCQs on PHP (Chapterwise).

1. What is PHP?
a) PHP is an open-source programming language
b) PHP is used to develop dynamic and interactive websites
c) PHP is a server-side scripting language
d) All of the mentioned
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2. Who is the father of PHP?
a) Drek Kolkevi
b) Rasmus Lerdorf
c) Willam Makepiece
d) List Barely
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3. What does PHP stand for?
a) PHP stands for Preprocessor Home Page
b) PHP stands for Pretext Hypertext Processor
c) PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor
d) PHP stands for Personal Hyper Processor
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4. Which of the following is the correct syntax to write a PHP code?
a) <?php ?>
b) < php >
c) < ? php ?>
d) <? ?>
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5. Which of the following is the correct way to add a comment in PHP code?
a) #
b) //
c) /* */
d) All of the mentioned
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6. Which of the following is the default file extension of PHP files?
a) .php
b) .ph
c) .xml
d) .html
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7. How to define a function in PHP?
a) functionName(parameters) {function body}
b) function {function body}
c) function functionName(parameters) {function body}
d) data type functionName(parameters) {function body}
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8. What will be the output of the following PHP code?

<?php
$x = 10;
$y = 20;
if ($x > $y && 1||1)
    print "1000 PHP MCQ" ;
else
    print "Welcome to Sanfoundry";
?>

a) no output
b) Welcome to Sanfoundry
c) 1000 PHP MCQ
d) error
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9. Which is the right way of declaring a variable in PHP?
a) $3hello
b) $_hello
c) $this
d) $5_Hello
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10. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$fruits = array ("apple", "orange", array ("pear", "mango"),"banana");
echo (count($fruits, 1));
?>

a) 6
b) 5
c) 4
d) 3
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11. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
    function multi($num)
    {
        if ($num == 3)
            echo "I Wonder";
        if ($num == 7)
            echo "Which One";
        if ($num == 8)
            echo "Is The";
        if ($num == 19)
            echo "Correct Answer";
    }
    $can = stripos("I love php, I love php too!","PHP");
    multi($can);
?>

a) Correct Answer
b) Is The
c) I Wonder
d) Which One
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12. Which of the following PHP functions can be used for generating unique ids?
a) md5()
b) uniqueid()
c) mdid()
d) id()
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13. In the following PHP program, what is/are the properties?

<?php
    class Example 
    {
        public $name;
        function Sample()
        {
            echo "Learn PHP @ Sanfoundry";
        }
    } 
?>

a) function sample()
b) echo “This is an example”;
c) public $name;
d) class Example
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14. What will be the output of the following PHP code?

<?php
define("GREETING", "PHP is a scripting language");
echo $GREETING;
?>

a) $GREETING
b) no output
c) PHP is a scripting language
d) GREETING
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15. A function in PHP which starts with __ (double underscore) is known as __________
a) Default Function
b) User Defined Function
c) Inbuilt Function
d) Magic Function
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16. How many functions does PHP offer for searching and modifying strings using Perl-compatible regular expressions.
a) 10
b) 7
c) 8
d) 9
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17. Which of the following web servers are required to run the PHP script?
a) Apache and PHP
b) IIS
c) XAMPP
d) Any of the mentioned
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18. What will be the output of the following PHP code snippet?

<?php
    $url = "[email protected]";
    echo ltrim(strstr($url, "@"),"@");
?>

a) [email protected]
b) [email protected]
c) phpmcq@
d) sanfoundry.com
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19. Which of the following PHP functions can be used to get the current memory usage?
a) memory_get_usage()
b) memory_get_peak_usage()
c) get_peak_usage()
d) get_usage()
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20. Which one of the following PHP function is used to determine a file’s last access time?
a) filetime()
b) fileatime()
c) fileltime()
d) filectime()
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21. What will be the output of the following PHP code?

<?php
$x = 5;
$y = 10;
function fun()
{
    $y = $GLOBALS['x'] + $GLOBALS['y'];
} 
fun();
echo $y;
?>

a) 5
b) 10
c) 15
d) Error
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22. PHP recognizes constructors by the name _________
a) function __construct()
b) function _construct()
c) classname()
d) _construct()
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23. The developers of PHP deprecated the safe mode feature as of which PHP version?
a) PHP 5.3.1
b) PHP 5.3.0
c) PHP 5.1.0
d) PHP 5.2.0
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24. What will be the value of the variable $input in the following PHP program?

<?php
$input = "PHP<td>stands for</td>Hypertext<i>Preprocessor</i>!";
$input = strip_tags($input,"<i></i>");
echo $input;
?>

a) PHP stands for Hypertext <i>Preprocessor</i>!
b) PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor!
c) PHP <td>stands for</td> Hypertext <i>Preprocessor</i>!
d) PHP <td>stands for</td> Hypertext Preprocessor!
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25. Which of the following variables does PHP use to authenticate a user?

i) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'].
ii) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USERS'].
iii) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PU'].
iv) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'].

a) ii) and iv)
b) i) and iv)
c) ii) and iii)
d) i) and ii)
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26. What does PDO stand for?
a) PHP Database Orientation
b) PHP Data Orientation
c) PHP Data Object
d) PHP Database Object
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27. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$a = 100;
if ($a > 10)
    printf("PHP Quiz");
else if ($a > 20)
    printf("PHP MCQ");
else if($a > 30)
    printf("PHP Program");
?>

a)

PHP Quiz
PHP MCQ
PHP Program

b) PHP Quiz
c) No output
d) PHP MCQ
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28. Which of the looping statements is/are supported by PHP?

i) for loop
ii) while loop
iii) do-while loop
iv) foreach loop

a) Only iv)
b) i) and ii)
c) i), ii) and iii)
d) i), ii), iii) and iv)
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29. Which PHP statement will give output as $x on the screen?
a) echo “\$x”;
b) echo “$$x”;
c) echo “/$x”;
d) echo “$x;”;
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30. Which version of PHP introduced the advanced concepts of OOP?
a) PHP 6
b) PHP 4
c) PHP 5
d) PHP 5.3
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31. What will be the output of the following PHP code?

<?php
$x = 4;
$y = 3
$z = 1;
$z = $z + $x + $y;
echo "$z";
?>

a) 15
b) 8
c) 1
d) $z
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32. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$a = "$winner";
$b = "/$looser";
echo $a,$b;
?>

a) /
b) $looser
c) /$looser
d) $winner/$looser
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33. Which one of the following is the default PHP session name?
a) PHPSESSIONID
b) PHPIDSESS
c) PHPSESSID
d) PHPSESID
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34. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$mcq = 1;
switch(print $mcq)
{
case 2:
    print "HTML";
    break;
case 1:
    print "CSS";
    break;
default:
    print "JavaScript";
}
?>

a) error
b) 1HTML
c) 1JavaScript
d) 1CSS
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35. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
define("VAR_NAME","test"); 
${VAR_NAME} = "value"; 
echo VAR_NAME;
echo ${VAR_NAME}; 
?>

a) testtest
b) testvalue
c) error, constant value cannot be changed
d) test
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36. Which PHP function displays the web page’s most recent modification date?
a) getlastmod()
b) get_last_mod()
c) lastmod()
d) last_mod()
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37. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$i = 5;
while (--$i > 0 && ++$i)
{   
    print $i;
}
?>

a) 555555555…infinitely
b) 54321
c) error
d) 5
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38. What will be the output of the following PHP code?

<?php
function constant()
{
    define("GREETING", "Welcome to Sanfoundry",true);
    echo greeting;
}
?>

a) GREETING
b) Welcome to Sanfoundry
c) ERROR
d) greeting
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39. Which variable is used to collect form data sent with both the GET and POST methods?
a) $_BOTH
b) $REQUEST
c) $_REQUEST
d) $BOTH
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40. What will be the output of the following PHP program?

<?php
$php = array("Array", "Function", "Strings", "File");
echo pos($php);
?>

a) Function
b) File
c) Strings
d) Array
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41. If $a = 12 what will be returned when ($a == 12) ? 5 : 1 is executed?
a) 1
b) 5
c) 12
d) Error
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1. PHP Basics
2. PHP Array
3. PHP OOPs
4. PHP Error Handling and Exception Handling
5. PHP Strings and PHP Regular Expressions
6. PHP File and PHP Session Handling
7. PHP Objects and Databases
8. PHP Object Tools and Design
9. PHP Variables
10. PHP Constants
11. PHP Operators
12. PHP Looping Statements
13. PHP Functions

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