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Naveen Dinushka
Naveen Dinushka

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Simple Calculator in PHP (OOP principles)

So lets build a calculator which does the following.
1) Addition
2) Multiplication
3) Division
4) Subtraction

The folder and file structure is given below

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Lets get the html index.php sorted first, so whats in it?

<?php

 include 'includes/class-autoload.inc.php';
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="includes/calc.inc.php" method = "post">

    <p>Calculator V01</p>
    <input type= "number" name="num1" placeholder="First number">
    <select name="oper" >
      <option value="add"> Addition </option>
      <option value="sub"> Substraction </option>
      <option value="div">Division </option>
      <option value="mul">Multiplication </option>
    </select>
    <input type="number" name="num2" placeholder="Second number">
    <button type="submit" name="submit">  Calculate</button>

</form>

</body>
</html>

The code above should be self-explanatory, if you are unsure about the class-autoload.php file have a look at this article(
https://dev.to/naveenkolambage/autoload-classes-in-php-4474 ) about it.

And here is the code we have in class-autoload.inc.php

<?php

spl_autoload_register('myAutoLoader');

function myAutoLoader($className){
    $url= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

    if(strpos($url, 'includes')!==false){
        $path = '../classes/';
    }
    else{
        $path = 'classes/';
    }
    $extension = '.class.php';
    require_once $path.$className.$extension;
}

Then we look at the calculator class file which is calc.class.php

<?php

class Calc{
    public $operator;
    public $num1;
    public $num2;


    public function __construct(string $one, int $two, int $three){
        $this->operator = $one;
        $this->num1 = $two;
        $this->num2 = $three;
    }


    public function calculator(){
     switch ($this->operator) {
         case 'add':
            $result = $this->num1 + $this->num2;
            return $result;             
            break;
        case 'sub':
            $result = $this->num1 - $this->num2;
            return $result;             
            break;
        case 'div':    
             $result = $this->num1 / $this->num2;
             return $result;             
             break;
        case 'mul':    
             $result = $this->num1 * $this->num2;
             return $result;             
             break;

     }
    }

}

Then the next file is calc.inc.php

<?php
include 'class-autoload.inc.php';

$oper = $_POST["oper"];
$num1 = $_POST["num1"];
$num2 = $_POST["num2"];

$calc = new Calc($oper,$num1,$num2);

try {
    echo $calc->calculator();
} catch (TypeError $e) {
    echo "Error!: " .$e->getMessage();
}

?>

When we load this up on xampp we can see the following.

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I have created a small video on this https://youtu.be/lU23DLYte6w

Oldest comments (3)

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Naveen Dinushka

Thanks heaps :)

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MacaroniGrill

Could you tell me what calc.inc.php does im confused on that part

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MacaroniGrill

also how does it run, does it go from index.php to calc.inc?
how do the other files interact with those two?