In this tutorial, you shall learn about Multiplication Assignment Operator, its syntax, and how to use this operator in programs, with examples.
PHP – Multiplication Assignment Operator
Multiplication assignment operator is used to increase the value in a variable by given number of times.
The operator takes two operands, and assigns the product of both the operands to the first operand.
Syntax
The syntax of using Multiplication Assignment Operator is
operand1 *= operand2
The operation would be similar to the following statement.
operand1 = operand1 * operand2
which translates to the meaning of increasing the value of operand1 by operand2 times.
We can use variable for operand1; variable or value for operand2.
Example
In the following example, we use Multiplication Assignment Operator to increase the value in variable $x by 10 times.
PHP Program
<?php
$x = 41;
$x *= 10;
print_r("After multiplication assignment, x is {$x}.");
?> Output
Conclusion
In this PHP Tutorial, we learned about Multiplication Assignment Operator, and how to use it to increase the value in a variable by given number of times.