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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Subfolders Subfolders, Web Addresses, Server Paths, and Constants

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Posted by Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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To create a constant in PHP, you use the ( ) command.?

i am having problem trying to figure it out

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Mark Railton
Mark Railton
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Mark Railton
Mark Railton
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To create a constant you use the define() function, for example, to create a constant of MESSAGE with the content of Hello World you would use it like define('MESSAGE', 'Hello world!');

Then, when calling the constant you simply call the name of the constant (in all caps) without any other operators, ie to echo it, you would simply use echo MESSAGE;