Php

Question

Say me this answer
$a=2; $b=$a++;
When I am executing it i am getting it as 2 but how.$a is incremented and assigned to $b know then I should get the value as 3 know but how give me explaination

Answer 1

to get 3 as result, $b=++$a
$a++ is post increment, return $a then increment by 1
++$a is pre increment, increment by 1 then return $a