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Hello, Charles! Welcome to INFOST 440.
A function is a reusable block of code that performs a specific task. PHP has built-in functions, such as strlen(), that are already provided by the language. Programmers can also create their own functions for specific tasks. A user-defined function can receive information through parameters, process it, and return a result when the function is called.