PHP Operators <br />Operators are used to perform operations on variables and values. <br /> <br />PHP divides the operators in the following groups: <br /> <br />Arithmetic operators <br />Assignment operators <br />Comparison operators <br />Increment/Decrement operators <br />Logical operators <br />String operators <br />Array operators <br />PHP Arithmetic Operators <br />The PHP arithmetic operators are used with numeric values to perform common arithmetical operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication etc. <br />PHP Assignment Operators <br />The PHP assignment operators are used with numeric values to write a value to a variable. <br /> <br />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.