PHP interview questions and answers for 1 year experience

Question: What are the current versions of apache, php, and mysql?
Answer:
PHP: 7.0.4 / March 3, 2016
Apache: 2.4.18 December 14, 2015
MySQL: 5.6.26 / July 24, 2015

Question: What are the different types of errors in php?
Answer:
E_ERROR: A fatal error that causes script termination
E_WARNING: Run-time warning that does not cause script termination
E_ALL: Catches all errors and warnings
E_PARSE: Compile time parse error.
E_NOTICE: Run time notice caused due to error in code
E_USER_WARNING: User-generated warning message.
E_USER_ERROR: User-generated error message.
E_USER_NOTICE: User-generated notice message.
E_STRICT: Run-time notices.
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR: Catchable fatal error indicating a dangerous error

Question: What is maximum size of a database in mysql?
Answer: Depend on Operating System

Question: What is meant by MIME?
Answer:
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

WWW ability to recognize and handle files of different types is largely dependent on the use of the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) standard. The standard provides for a system of registration of file types with information about the applications needed to process them.

Question: What Is a Persistent Cookie?
Answer:

Persistent cookie is a cookie which is permanently stored on user’s computer in a cookie file. They are used for tracking the user information of the users who are browsing from a very long time. They also have the drawbacks of being unsecure, as user can see the cookies which are saved on the computer.

Question: How to set persistent Cookie?
There is no special way to set persistent cookies. Setting Cookies with an expiration date become persistent cookie.

setcookie( "cookieName", 'cookieValue', strtotime( '+30 days' ) );

Question: Can we send ajax request to other domain?

Answer: No, You can't send Ajax request if different protocal OR different host.

For Example, the following table gives an overview of typical outcomes for checks against the URL"http://www.example.com/directory/about-us.html".

Compared URL	Outcome	Reason
httpː//www.example.com/dir/page2.html	Success	Same protocol and host
httpː//www.example.com/dir2/other.html	Success	Same protocol and host
httpː//www.example.com:81/dir/other.html	Failure	Same protocol and host but different port
https://www.example.com/dir/other.html	Failure	Different protocol
http://en.example.com/dir/other.html	Failure	Different host
http://example.com/dir/other.html	Failure	Different host (exact match required)
http://v2.www.example.com/dir/other.html	Failure	Different host (exact match required)
httpː//www.example.com:80/dir/other.html	Don't use	Port explicit. Depends on implementation in browser.

Question: How can PHP read the hash portion of the URL?

Answer: PHP can't read the hash portion of the URL

index.php?page=group#birthday

Here, PHP can not read the birthday

There is some by which you can get this value

get the value by javascript and then set to cookie or pass in ajax. See Example

var query = location.href.split('#'); 
document.cookies = 'hasValue=' + query[1];

Question: What Is difference between array_combine and array_merge?
Answer:
array_combine give an array by combining two arrays($keyArray, $valueArray) and both $keyArray & $valueArray must have same number of elements. $keyArrays become keys of returning Array, $valueArray become values of returning Arrays.

array_merge gives an array by merging two array ($array1, $array2) and both can have different number of elements. $array1 and $array2 are added in returning array.

Question: What Is difference between Cookie and Session?
Answer:
Cookie are stored in client side (e.g Browser) where as Session are stored in server side (tmp file of web server). Cookie can be added/update/delete from browser but session can't delete from browser.
Session is depended on cookie. For example: When user login in website then session is created in webserver. To communicate the webserver with user, an cookie is created by the application. with use of this cookie-key, Server get to know that user is login OR not.

http://www.web-technology-experts-notes.in/2014/11/angularjs-interview-questions-and-answers-for-experienced.html

Question: What are encryption functions in PHP?
CRYPT(), MD5()

Question: How to store the uploaded file to the final location? move_uploaded_file( string filename, string destination)

Question: Explain mysql_error(). The mysql_error() message will tell us what was wrong with our mysql query.

Question: What is stdClass?
It is PHP generic empty class.
stdClass is used to create the new Object. For Example

$newObj = new stdClass();
$newObj->name='What is your name?';
$newObj->description='Tell me about yourself?';
$newObj->areYouInIndia=1;
print_r($newObj);

Output

stdClass Object
(
    [name] => What is your name?
    [description] => Tell me about yourself?
    [areYouInIndia] => 1
)

Web Technology Experts Notes

Monday, 3 June 2013