It is often useful to think of variables as computer memory locations where data is to be stored. When declaring a variable in PHP it is assigned a name that can used to reference it in other locations in the PHP script. The value of the variable can be accessed, the value can be changed, and the type of variable can be altered all by reference the name assigned at variable creation time.
== Naming and Creating a Variable in PHP ==
Exception encountered, of type "Error"
[ed26bf28] /index.php/Special:MobileDiff/1028 Error from line 434 of /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php: Call to undefined function each()
Backtrace:
#0 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(544): DiffEngine->diag()
#1 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(344): DiffEngine->compareSeq()
#2 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(227): DiffEngine->diffLocal()
#3 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(721): DiffEngine->diff()
#4 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(859): Diff->__construct()
#5 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(980): MappedDiff->__construct()
#6 /home/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDiffFormatter.php(99): WordLevelDiff->__construct()
#7 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(140): InlineDiffFormatter->changed()
#8 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(82): DiffFormatter->block()
#9 /home/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDifferenceEngine.php(117): DiffFormatter->format()
#10 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(797): InlineDifferenceEngine->generateTextDiffBody()
#11 /home/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(728): DifferenceEngine->generateContentDiffBody()
#12 /home/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(241): DifferenceEngine->getDiffBody()
#13 /home/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(135): SpecialMobileDiff->showDiff()
#14 /home/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/MobileSpecialPage.php(53): SpecialMobileDiff->executeWhenAvailable()
#15 /home/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(384): MobileSpecialPage->execute()
#16 /home/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(553): SpecialPage->run()
#17 /home/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(281): SpecialPageFactory::executePath()
#18 /home/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#19 /home/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main()
#20 /home/techotopia/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run()
#21 {main}