Advice needed in php program.

Sir ,
I am a php learner i want to make a php program by which i can show star
arrangement like this
*****
****
***
**
*

Any body can help me .

Thank you
pradip

 

$max = 5;
$min = 1;


for($x = $max;$x >= $min; $x--){
  
   for($y = $min;$y <= $x; $y++){
   
      echo ($y != $x)?' * ':' * <br>';
   
   }//end for 

}//end for 

PHP:

Hope it's help.

 

The following code also works perfectly:
<?php
for ( $counter = 5; $counter >= 1; $counter -= 1) {
for($j=1; $j<=$counter; $j+=1)
{
echo "*";
}
?>
</br>
<?php
}
?>

 

sir,
Thank you for helping me to understand the program.

Pradip

 

$amount = 5;

while ($amount)
{
	echo str_repeat('*', $amount--), "\n";	
}

PHP:

 

Thanks this is great idea you have supplied. I am really enjoying dp to learn php. Thanks a lot all of you for helping me a lot.