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Why used sign dollar 💲 before variables ?

24th Dec 2016, 4:04 PM
Oula Nasri
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4 Answers
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for not particular reason, it's just php syntax.
24th Dec 2016, 4:48 PM
Nahuel
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it looks cool ;)
25th Dec 2016, 7:10 PM
Ian Croasdell
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It just follows Perl's convention of using $ sign before variable names,
24th Dec 2016, 5:46 PM
Rishi Anand
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Thats how you declare a variable in php otherwise you will get an error. In other words that is default using the $ sign
26th Dec 2016, 5:14 PM
Macky Miro
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