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PHP

Posted by Sekoyya Little
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Sekoyya Little
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,651 Points

Write a countdown script in PHP that starts at 10 and ends at 1.

Here is the entire question:

Write a countdown script in PHP that starts at 10 and ends at 1. For every odd number I want you to add 1 to the number and every even number I want you to subtract 1 from the number. So the final countdown will look like:

9 10 7 8 5 6 3 4 1 2

1 Answer

Niko Tarmaa
Niko Tarmaa
3,038 Points

I would use for loop & ternary operators to get it as small and clean as possible. Something like this:

for($i = 10; $i >= 1; $i--) {
    $b = ($i % 2) == 0 ? $i -1 : $i + 1;
    echo $b . "\n";
}