A vowel is a speech sound made with your mouth fairly open, the nucleus of a spoken syllable. A consonant is a sound made with your mouth fairly closed. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in English Alphabet. The below program reads an alphabet from the user and checks whether the given letter is a vowel-like a, e, i, o, u, or it is a consonant like the rest of the letters. Vowels and consonants combine to form words.
Here in this PHP program we use a static array vowels[ ] which holds the vowels 'a','e','i','o','u'. Now read an alphabet from the user using readLine() function in PHP and store the value in the variable letter. Then, convert the alphabet to lowercase (the user may enter capitals to check) using the built-in function strtolower($letter) and use an if condition to check the value with the elements of array vowels[ ]. If got a match then print the given alphabet is a vowel otherwise print its a consonant.
STEP 1: Declare an array vowels[ ] and initialise it with vowels a,e, i,o,u
STEP 2: Read an alphabet to letter
STEP 3: Using the function in_array() check whether strtolower($letter)[case of a letter converts to lowercase] in array vowels[ ], if yes then print letter is vowel else print letter is consonant.
<?php
$vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u'];
$letter = readLine("Enter a character ");
if (in_array(strtolower($letter), $vowels))
echo $letter." is a Vowel";
else
echo $letter." is a Consonant";
?>
Enter a character M M is a Consonant Enter a character i i is a Vowel
