PHP Functions and I

I have high knowledge of functions therefore this section of the “Zend PHP 5 Certification Blog” is likely to be short but informative. Writing functions is an essential ability I have found functions useful in many ways to such an extent I have a private ill-documented function library.

Define: Functions

A function is just a name we give to a block of code that can be executed whenever we need it. This might not seem like that big of an idea, but believe me, when you understand and use functions you will be able to save a ton of time and write code that is much more readable!
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In this section of the Zend PHP 5 Certification Blog I will be refreshing my knowledge of language constructs, not to be confused with functions! even though they look like them. You should already know of or know how to use these.

Define: Language Construct

A language construct is a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of a programming language.

In PHP they have made Language Construct look like functions, this is to ease simplicity when learning PHP. We should be aware that those listed bellow are “Language Constructs”
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