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PHP User-Defined Functions

Other than the built-in functions, users can create their own functions. A user function is a block of code that can be executed whenever we need it:

All functions start with the word function.

Give the function a name that reflects what the function does.

Parameters are specified after the function name, inside the parentheses. In PHP, call-by-value is by default. If an ‘&’ is added before the variable name in the function definition, it passes parameters by name instead.
In a call-by-name system, a variable within your named block of code points to the same piece of computer memory as the variable in the calling code.

Add a ‘{’—The function code starts after the opening curly brace.

Insert the function code. To let a function return a value, use the return statement.

Add a ‘}’—The function is finished by a closing curly brace.

This program reads a list of integers and returns the sum of even values by

Implementing a user-defined function even, which uses the modulus operator % to decide whether a value is even, and

Using a built-in function strtok(string,split), which returns a sequence of integers one by one.

 <html><body>
  <?php
   function even( $x ) {
    if ( $x%2 == 0 )  return( $x );
    else  return( 0 );
   }
   $list   = "";
   $sep    = "";
   $number = strtok( $list, $sep );
   $acc    = 0;
   while ( is_numeric( $number ) ) {
    $acc   += even( $number );
    $number = strtok( $sep );
   }
   echo  $acc;
  ?>
 </body></html>

Output =

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