PHP Assignment Operators

The PHP assignment operators are used with numeric values to write a value to a variable.

The basic assignment operator in PHP is “=”. It means that the left operand gets set to the value of the assignment expression on the right.

Assignment    Same as...   Description    
x = y         x = y        The left operand gets set to the value of the expression on the right    
x += y        x = x + y    Addition    
x -= y        x = x - y    Subtraction    
x *= y        x = x * y    Multiplication    
x /= y        x = x / y    Division    
x %= y        x = x % y    Modulus
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